Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
 by Penelope Brown

Man and Tree & Space Games

by Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown, Eve Danziger, Lourdes de León, John B. Haviland, Eric Pederson, Gunter Senft

These classic tasks can be used to explore spatial reference in field settings. They provide a language-independent metric for eliciting spatial language, using a “director-matcher” paradigm. The Man and Tree task deals with location on the horizontal plane with both featured (man) and non-featured (e.g., tree) objects. The Space Games depict various objects (e.g. bananas, lemons) and elicit spatial contrasts not obviously lexicalisable in English.

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Levinson, S. C., Brown, P., Danzinger, E., De León, L., Haviland, J. B., Pederson, E., & Senft, G. (1992). Man and Tree & Space Games. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 7-14). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.2458804.

Volume 1992 , filed under Space project.
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