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Visual Thinking and Spatial Cognition with Barbara Tversky
The Rhys Show
The Unfolding of Language
There's been a lot of work on how prepositions map to space and they differ across languages enormously. Some have many and even Korean has one for fitting tightly the way a ring would or fitting loosely the way a kaftan would. We start in this kind of simple, spatially organized world of nouns and verbs, and then it becomes the prepositions and all these other things as those kind of physical metaphors kind of infest the rest of our language. Do you have any thoughts on that? Kind of how language evolved with spatial cognition here?
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