Space project (36 entries)
The Space project investigates how people talk about and understand space in large-scale space for navigation and small-scale space for locating objects, and how space structures our understanding of other domains, such as time.
(10 entries)
Hidden colour-chips task: demonstratives, attention, and interaction
Demonstratives are typically described as encoding degrees of physical distance between the object referred to, and the speaker or addressee. For example, this in English is used to talk about… More →
Eliciting Contrastive Use of Demonstratives for Objects Within Close Personal Space
Contrastive reference, where a speaker presents or identifies one item in explicit contrast to another (I like this book but that one is boring), has special communicative and information structure… More →
Time and Space Questionnaire
This entry contains: 1. An invitation to think about to what extent the grammar of space and time share lexical and morphosyntactic resources − the suggestions here are only prompts,… More →
Picture Series for Positional Verbs: Eliciting the Verbal Component in Locative Descriptions
How do different languages encode location and position meanings? In conjunction with the BowPed picture series and Caused Positions task, this elicitation tool is designed to help researchers (i) identify… More →
Motion Verb Stimulus (Moverb)
How do languages express ideas of movement, and how do they package different components of this domain, such as manner and path of motion? This task uses one large set… More →
Enter/Exit Animation for Linguistic Elicitation
This task investigates the expression of “enter” and “exit” events, and is a supplement to the Motion Elicitation task. Consultants are asked to describe a series of animated clips where… More →
Background Questions for the ‘Enter/Exit’ Research
How do languages encode different kinds of movement, and what features do people pay attention to when describing motion events? This document outlines topics concerning the investigation of “enter” and… More →
Pilot Questionnaire to Investigate Social Users of Space
Day-to-day interpretations of “space” are enmeshed in specific cultural and linguistic practices. For example, many cultures have an association between vertical height and social standing; more powerful people may be… More →
Towards a Socio-Cultural Profile of the Communities We Work With
Field data are drawn from a particular speech community at a certain place and time. The intent of this survey is to enrich understanding of the various socio-cultural contexts in… More →
Route Descriptions: Interactive Games with Eric’s Maze Task
What are the preferred ways to describe spatial relationships in different linguistic and cultural groups, and how does this interact with non-linguistic spatial awareness? This game was devised as an… More →