Abstract
The relation between spatial vision and spatial language has always been a source of controversy. Three problems can be identified as in need of a solution. A first problem pertains to the nature of the minimal information units that make up spatial vision and language. A second problem pertains to the ‘dynamic’ aspects of vision and language, or what visual information to and similar adpositions correspond to. A third problem pertains to how these different types of information are related one another, and what is the status of this ‘interface’, especially within a broader theory of language and cognition. The solution proposed here consists in a formal (model-theoretic) treatment of visual and linguistic information, both static and dynamic, that is couched within (a simplified form of) Discourse Representation Theory. It is shown that this solution is consistent with general theories of cognition and may shed some (novel) light on the nature of the FLN/FLB distinction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 170-225 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
| Journal | Biolinguistics |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright the Author(s) 2011. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- Discourse Representation Theory
- faculty of language in the narrow/broad sense (FLN/FLB)
- interfaces
- space
- vision