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    "pk": 25549,
    "title": "Similarity and Variation in the Distribution of Spatial Expressions\nAcross Three Languages",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Languages of the world universally encode spatial\nrelationships between objects. However, speakers employ a\nvariety of different language-specific expressions, which may\nencode culture-specific information about objects and/or\ndifferent spatial concepts. We ask whether aspects of the\nencoding of spatial relations across languages nevertheless\nshow common underlying spatial concepts as reflected in the\ndistributions of spatial expressions over spatial sub-types. We\nexamine a set of hypothesized distinctions within the spatial\nrelational concepts of Containment and Support across three\ntypologically distinct languages: English, Hindi, and\nMandarin. We find support for two related hypotheses\nconcerning common patterns of variation in (a) speakers' use\nof select \"basic\" spatial expressions, and (b) languages'\ninventory and distribution of expressions across hypothesized\nContainment and Support subtypes. The results underscore\nthe presence of strong universal similarities in both the\nextension of basic spatial expressions across relations and in\nthe principles governing the diversity of expressions available\nfor encoding particular relations",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Spatial cognition; spatial language; semantics;\ncross-linguistic analysis"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f27c4bg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kristen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Johannes",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Johns Hopkins University,",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jenny",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Johns Hopkins University,",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Anna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Papafragou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Delaware",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Landau",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Johns Hopkins University,",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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