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Srinivasan, Mahesh; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2010
When we describe time, we often use the language of space ("The movie was long"; "The deadline is approaching"). Experiments 1-3 asked whether--as patterns in language suggest--a structural similarity between representations of spatial length and temporal duration is easier to access than one between length and other dimensions of experience, such…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Cues, Infants, Experiments