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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Spatial Prepositions"”.
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Computational Interpretation of English Spatial Prepositions
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… grammar approach to examining the meaning of spatialprepositions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), critically examines traditional accounts ofthe semantic character and syntactic role of MSA prepositions and posits an alternativeapproach based on construction grammar theory and findings from …
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Literal and figurative meanings of Spanish spatial prepositions in Chinese students’ acquisition of Spanish as a third language
This thesis investigates the acquisition of the spatial and figurative meanings of five Spanish spatial particles, namely sobre, encima, debajo, bajo and en, by a group of Chinese university students of Spanish as a foreign language at intermediate and upper-intermediate language levels. More …
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"Universal Semantic Primes, and Their Application to French Monolingual and English -French Bilingual Lexicography: English Spatial Prepositions By, on and Into in French Translations of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"""
Finally, Wierzbicka (1996)'s semantic analysis could be improved by incorporating in the system other SPs from the literature.
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Semantic representations for spatial expressions
A spatial expression is defined as a natural language phrase which specifies a position, area or direction of objects, employing any of various parts of speech such as prepositions (on, in, …), nouns (front, rear,…), verbs (locate, stand, …), adjectives (close, distant, …), adverbs (back, next,…), …
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Children's production of locative expressions in English : the influence of geometric and extra-geometric factors
… and extrageometric factors have on children's spatial language production. Over the years it has widely been assumed that spatial prepositions identif' where objects are in the world (geometric factors) and that this is reflected in the semantic representations of these words. More recently, …
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Natural language and spatial reasoning
… domains: finding video clips that match a spatial language description such as "People walking through the kitchen and then going to the dining room" and following natural language commands such as "Go down the hall towards the fireplace in the living room." Understanding spatial language …
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Developing Production Skills through Implicit Learning
… specifically, the usage rule for a pair of spatial prepositions (v and na) which alternate depending on the distinction between open and enclosed spaces. Training was carried out using a novel methodology based on elicited oral imitation, which was also used to test productive knowledge. …
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English non-prepositional counterparts of Czech "v/ve" and "z/ze" prepositional phrases
Diplomová práce se zabývá anglickými nepředložkovými ekvivalenty českých předložkových frází s předložkami v/ve a z/ze. Tento typ ekvivalentu se vyskytuje zhruba ve 20% případů (Klégr a kol., 2011). Práce ukazuje, že některé z divergentních protějšků jsou podmíněny lexikálně (rozdílná valence …