Talk About Motion: The Semantic Representation of Verbs by Motion Dynamics

Erin N. Cannon; Paul R. Cohen

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Talk About Motion: The Semantic Representation of Verbs by Motion Dynamics

Erin N. Cannon, Paul R. Cohen

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Abstract

In this chapter we propose that word choice, particularly the utterance of a verb, is conditioned on situations containing representations of abstracted movement patterns from the environment. We begin by defining and exploring this theory of word meaning, and review of the developmental literature demonstrating the human sensitivity to meaningful movement patterns through space. We provide one account, P. R. Cohen's Maps for Verbs framework, as support for this hypothesis.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191720444
ISBN (Print)	9780199553242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553242.003.0011
State	Published - May 1 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Event representation
Language acquisition
Semantics
Verb learning

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Arts and Humanities(all)

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