Does changing the reference frame affect infant categorization of the spatial relation BETWEEN?

Quinn, Paul C.; Doran, Matthew M.; Papafragou, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.10.001

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“…), so it must be driven purely by the learners' construal of the corresponding spatial scenes. Interestingly, just as in the present data, children's extension of containment terms is unlikely to be due to a conceptual inability to differentiate going‐between from going‐into events: There is evidence that even infants possess the concept BETWEEN (Quinn, Doran, & Papafragou, ; Quinn, Norris, Pasko, Schmader, & Mash, ). A more likely explanation is that children lack the more specific adposition between and co‐opt containment expressions to express between‐relations since the space between two objects can be treated as a bounded volume (see Johnston & Slobin, ; Skordos, Johanson, & Papafragou, unpublished data; for cross‐linguistic evidence for the late emergence of between )…”

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What Does Children's Spatial Language Reveal About Spatial Concepts? Evidence From the Use of Containment Expressions

Johanson

Papafragou

2014

Cognitive Science

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Children's overextensions of spatial language are often taken to reveal spatial biases. However, it is unclear whether extension patterns should be attributed to children's overly general spatial concepts or to a narrower notion of conceptual similarity allowing metaphor-like extensions. We describe a previously unnoticed extension of spatial expressions and use a novel method to determine its origins. English-and Greek-speaking 4-and 5-year-olds used containment expressions (e.g., English into, Greek mesa) for events where an object moved into another object but extended such expressions to events where the object moved behind or under another object. The pattern emerged in adult speakers of both languages and also in speakers of 10 additional languages. We conclude that learners do not have an overly general concept of Containment. Nevertheless, children (and adults) perceive similarities across Containment and other types of spatial scenes, even when these similarities are obscured by the conventional forms of the language.

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What Does Children's Spatial Language Reveal About Spatial Concepts? Evidence From the Use of Containment Expressions

Johanson

Papafragou

2014

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“…This raises the question of under what conditions are infants successful at forming a category of manner with realistic stimuli. Because categorization of relations appears to be developmentally fragile in the first year of life(Quinn et al, 2011), we investigate whether 13-to 15-month-old infants can categorize manner of motion in the presence and absence of a ground object using realistic stimuli in Experiment 2. In addition, to assess the primacy of path of motion, we investigate whether infants' ability to categorize path is superior to manner categorization by comparing infants' performance in Experiments 1 and 2.Experiment 2: Can 13-to 15-month-old infants categorize a figure's manner of motion in dynamic events involving a human actor?In Experiment 2, we explore whether infants can form categories of a figure's manner of motion in complex, dynamic events in the presence (MC+GO or ground object condition) and absence (MC-GO or no ground object condition) of a ground object.…”

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Categorization of dynamic realistic motion events: Infants form categories of path before manner

Konishi

Pruden

Golinkoff

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Acquiring verbs and prepositions requires categorization of spatial relations. This study examined whether a ground object differentially influences 13- to 15-month-old English-learning infants' categorization of a figure's path (e.g., around; Experiment 1) and manner (e.g., hopping; Experiment 2) of motion in non-linguistic dynamic realistic events. Furthermore, we tested whether categorizing path is "easier" than categorizing manner. Results revealed that infants categorized path only in the presence of a ground object, validating Talmy's definition of path. In contrast, infants categorized manner only in the absence of a ground object. Finally, infants categorizing path showed stronger novelty preferences than those categorizing manner, supporting a primacy of path. Infants showed sensitivity to event components lexicalized in relational terms.

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How Multiple Exemplars Matter for Infant Spatial Categorization

Casasola

Park

2020

Language and Concept Acquisition From Infancy Through Childhood

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Does changing the reference frame affect infant categorization of the spatial relation BETWEEN?

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

What Does Children's Spatial Language Reveal About Spatial Concepts? Evidence From the Use of Containment Expressions

What Does Children's Spatial Language Reveal About Spatial Concepts? Evidence From the Use of Containment Expressions

Categorization of dynamic realistic motion events: Infants form categories of path before manner

How Multiple Exemplars Matter for Infant Spatial Categorization

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