Semantics of Spatial Relations


 

This project investigates the semantics of spatial relations like in, on and over. The papers below report various experiments which examine the influence of functional geometry in people's judgments of such spatial relations.
 

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Collaborators

Kenny Coventry
Tony Sanford



 
 
 


Publications --TOP

Coventry, K.R. & Garrod, S. (2004) Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics  of Spatial  Prepositions. Psychology Press, Hove.
 

Garrod, S., Ferrier, G.& Campbell, S. (1999) In and On: Investigating the functional geometry of spatial prepositions. Cognition, 72, 167-189.
 

Coventry, K.R., Carmichael, R. & Garrod, S.C. (1994) Spatial prepositions, Object specific function and Task requirements. Journal of Semantics,
11(4), 289-311.
 

Garrod,S. and Sanford,A.J. (1988) Discouse models as interfaces between language and the spatial world. Journal of Semantics, 6, 147-160.



 
 
 

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