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Direct linkMoore, Randi Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
How are linguistic and cognitive practices shared among individuals (and more broadly) populations and cultures? Further, how are cognitive strategies shared at the local level? Li and colleagues (Li & Gleitman 2002; Li et al 2011; "inter alia") suggest that the variation observed in reference frame practices among populations of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Linguistic Theory, Spatial Ability, Preferences
Lin, Yen-Ting – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigates the effect of linguistic and nonlinguistic variables on the use of spatial representations in bilingual speakers of Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) and Mandarin Chinese (MC) as compared to monolinguals. Linguists and psychologists are particularly interested in the factors that influence the selection among such…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Wang, Ninghua Nathan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Traditional spatial analysis and data mining methods fall short of extracting temporal information from data. This inability makes their use difficult to study changes and the associated mechanisms of many geographic phenomena of interest, for example, land-use. On the other hand, the growing availability of land-change data over multiple time…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Land Use, Change, Imagery
O'Meara, Carolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This thesis contributes to the growing field of ethnophysiography, a new subfield of cognitive anthropology that aims to determine the universals and variation in the categorization of landscape objects across cultures. More specifically, this work looks at the case of the Seri people of Sonora, Mexico to investigate the way they categorize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Physical Geography, Sociolinguistics
Eggleston, Alyson G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines linguistic spatial frame of reference (FoR) usage across three cohorts, detailing the lexical and structural realization of particular spatial FoR classes within each linguistic community, as well as which linguistic and nonlinguistic factors are predictors of spatial FoR class usage. This study was designed to determine…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Aryawibawa, I Nyoman – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many scholars have proposed concepts relevant to spatial reference. Herskovits (1982) proposed that the topological concepts support, contiguity and containment are basic in English, while Levinson et al.'s (2003) examination of nine unrelated languages revealed that the concept attachment is primary. Neither of these proposals is confirmed in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Foreign Countries, Indonesian, Spatial Ability
