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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"spatial language"”.
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The Neural Correlates of Spatial Language
… in order to investigate the neural correlates of spatial language, which can be thought of as language used to communicate the spatial relationship of one object to another. In a first experiment, participants completed a task during which they listened to auditory sentences about object …
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Learning to understand spatial language for robotic navigation and mobile manipulation
… on understanding task-constrained natural language commands, where a person gives a natural language command to the robot and the robot infers and executes the corresponding plan. Understanding natural language is difficult because a system must infer the location of landmarks such as "the …
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How spatial is spatial language? Investigating the relationship between spatial cognition and abstract language processing
… study aimed to explore the relationship between spatially grounded language and spatial cognition. According to embodied cognition, sensitivity to spatial grounding should be related to experience with spatial cognition. Participants completed three language tasks assessing their sensitivity to …
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Acquisition of spatial language by signing and speaking children: A comparison of Turkish Sign Language (TID) and Turkish
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On the Screen, In the Mind: An ERP Investigation into the Interaction Between Visuo-Spatial Information and Spatial Language During On-Line Processing
… after the presentation of objects with varying spatial features. Prepositional phrases were headed by <em>in </em>or <em>on </em>and were either matching (e.g., "in the plate/moment") or mismatching (e.g., "on the plate/moment"). Conjunction phrase matches and fillers were also presented. Before …
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Natural language and spatial reasoning
Making systems that understand language has long been a dream of artificial intelligence. This thesis develops a model for understanding language about space and movement in realistic situations. The system understands language from two real-world domains: finding video clips that match a spatial …
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Grounding language in spatial routines
This thesis describes a spatial language understanding system based on a lexicon of words defined in terms of spatial routines. A spatial routine is a script composed from a set of primitive operations on sensor data, analogous to Ullman's visual routines. By finding a set of primitives that …
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Time gestures : time conceptualisation in English with evidence from gestures in a multimodal corpus
… thus it can reveal information not present in language. In this thesis, I investigate three features of co-speech gestures: axis and direction; language-gesture congruency; and extent or distance. The dataset comprises gestures that co-occur with temporal linguistic expressions which can be …
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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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Spatial languages in IsiXhosa
This thesis investigates some aspects of spatial language of isiXhosa. It identifies the elements of isiXhosa used in the spatial domain and analyses their use and distribution across the language. Six isiXhosa-speaking language consultants were interviewed, all males between the ages of eighteen …
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Geometric and Extra-Geometric Spatial Conceptualisation: A cross-linguistic and non-verbal perspective
… (FGF) proposed by Coventry and Garrod (2004) for spatial language use has been based on a single language - English. Therefore the extent to which the framework applies across languages has not been established. The current thesis investigated whether geometric and extra-geometric factors affect …
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Does bilingualism confer perspective-taking advantages in language use?
… cognition, focusing on perspective-taking in language processing, a domain which is thought to place particular demands on the executive control system. We conclude that the results of two experiments comparing perspective-taking abilities in monolingual and bilingual adults offer no support …
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Perceptual foundations of abstract thought
… is motivated, in part, by patterns observed in language: in order to talk about abstract things, speakers often recruit metaphors from more concrete or perceptually rich domains. For example, English speakers often talk about time using spatial language (e.g., a long vacation; a short meeting). …
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Contextualizing generative design
… escape from our preconceptions and pre-existing spatial language. The challenge is to use this mechanism in real-world architectural contexts in which complexity and constraints imposed by the design problem make it difficult to negotiate between the emergent output, the context, and the …
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Spontaneous speech recognition using visual context-aware language models
… a novel situationally-aware multimodal spoken language system called Fuse that performs speech understanding for visual object selection. An experimental task was created in which people were asked to refer, using speech alone, to objects arranged on a table top. During training, Fuse acquires …
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Efficient language processing: the role of memory and visuo-spatial context
A hallmark of adult language processing is the efficiency with which it unfolds despite the massive amount of ambiguity present in the linguistic signal. Prior work has shown that visuo-spatial (e.g., Heller et al., 2008; Ryskin et al., 2014) and pragmatic (Sedivy et al., 1999) contextual …
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Chinese gated community : degree of openness and the social impacts
… The historical formation of this peculiar spatial layout derived from a centralized administration concern, which in turn blended into the traditional value as a symbol of social order and belonging. As people's preferences for residence follow the historical traditions and customs, the way …
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Multi-level Methods for Estimating Community Language from Social Media with User and Community Sociodemographics
… for predicting outcomes from community-level language, e.g., Twitter, tended to (1) focus on keyword-driven analyses, where manually selected sets of words were examined for their ability to predict real-world outcomes (i.e., the community's use of the word "opioids" on Twitter to predict …
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Images of entanglement : Wittgensteinian spatial practices between architecture and philosophy
… of architecture. Wittgenstein's philosophy of language is notable for its sharply distinguished early and late work: with the early work most strongly associated with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and the later frequently designated by his posthumously published Philosophical …
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