
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 125-142
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783540790365
Full citation:
, "Typological and computational investigations of spatial perspective", in: Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008


Typological and computational investigations of spatial perspective
pp. 125-142
in: Ipke Wachsmuth, Günther Knoblich (eds), Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008Abstract
This paper is part of an ongoing research program to understand the cognitive and functional bases for the origins and evolution of spatial language. Following a cognitive-functional approach, we first investigate the cross-linguistic variety in spatial language, with special attention for spatial perspective. Based on this language-typological data, we hypothesize which cognitive mechanisms are needed to explain this variety and argue for an interdisciplinary approach to test these hypotheses. We then explain how experiments in artificial language evolution can contribute to that and give a concrete example.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 125-142
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783540790365
Full citation:
, "Typological and computational investigations of spatial perspective", in: Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008