TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial frames of reference in Sumu-Mayangna
AU - Eggleston, Alyson
AU - Benedicto, Elena
AU - Balna, Mayangna Yulbarangyang
N1 - Funding Information:
The research presented here was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Award No. BCS-0723694 “Spatial language and cognition in Mesoamerica,” (PI J. Bohnemeyer) and also by the National Science Foundation Award No. BCS-0345680 “Mayangna: A Database and Study of Nominal Features on its Verbal Inflectional System,” (PI E. Benedicto).
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - A linguistic spatial task, conducted with five dyads of Sumu-Mayangna speakers, provides evidence that while speakers have diffuse access to spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs), the direct was most preferred. Further, the absolute FoR is found to be restricted to the lateral/east-west axis, with older generations displaying a greater proportion of use than younger ones. In addition, the possible exploitation of a meronymy system is discussed. A nonlinguistic spatial memory task indicates a bias toward an absolute solution type, and this partly mirrors observed trends in the linguistic task, providing some evidence for alignment between language and cognition.
AB - A linguistic spatial task, conducted with five dyads of Sumu-Mayangna speakers, provides evidence that while speakers have diffuse access to spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs), the direct was most preferred. Further, the absolute FoR is found to be restricted to the lateral/east-west axis, with older generations displaying a greater proportion of use than younger ones. In addition, the possible exploitation of a meronymy system is discussed. A nonlinguistic spatial memory task indicates a bias toward an absolute solution type, and this partly mirrors observed trends in the linguistic task, providing some evidence for alignment between language and cognition.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.langsci.2011.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.langsci.2011.06.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860389565
SN - 0388-0001
VL - 33
SP - 1047
EP - 1072
JO - Language Sciences
JF - Language Sciences
IS - 6
ER -