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    "pk": 27178,
    "title": "Pragmatic aspects of spatial language acquisition and use across languages",
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    "abstract": "Across languages, back is produced earlier and more\nfrequently than front. This asymmetry has been attributed\neither to a conceptual/semantic asymmetry in the early\nmeanings of these locatives (with back being more basic than\nfront; conceptual immaturity account) or to the fact that Back\nconfigurations are inherently more ‘noteworthy’ than Front\nconfigurations (pragmatic account). Here, we tested the two\naccounts. In Study 1, children and adult speakers of English\nand Greek described Front/Back motion events. In Study 2,\nadult speakers of 10 additional languages described the same\nevents. Despite cross-linguistic differences, speakers of all age\nand language groups typically used more Back than Front\nadpositions; furthermore, they often encoded Back information\nin occlusion verbs (e.g. hide) but no such verbs were available\nfor Front. Thus, the front/back asymmetry is not due to\nchildren’s conceptual immaturity but should be linked to\npragmatic factors that also shape adult spatial language\nproduction cross-linguistically.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "front; back; motion events; spatial cognition;\nlanguage production; pragmatics; theories of acquisition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gv932wg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Myrto",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grigoroglou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Delaware",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Megan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Johanson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Delaware",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Anna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Papafragou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Delaware",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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