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3rd ICCLS Symposium

Spatial cognition and its expression in language and gesture

Abstract

02.07.2007

Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft,

Amalienstraße 38, 80799 München

 

Sunday, 1 July, 18.00 
Conference warming in the Max-Emmanuel brewery & beer garden (Adalbert-straße 33)
Monday, 2 July, 9.30 – 18.00
09.30 Welcome (Katrin Lindner, ICCLS)
Section I: Orientation in space
09.45 Wulf Schiefenhövel (Andechs/München)

Orientation in Space: Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Aspects

10.30 Volker Heeschen (München)

Spuren, Signale und Grenzen: Was der Mensch als Zeichen wahrnimmt und wie er den Raum ordnet.

11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Asifa Majid (Nijmegen)

Segmenting the space of the human body

12.30 Lunch
Section II: The acquisition of spatial language
14.15 Anne-Katharina Ochsenbauer (München), Maya Hickmann (Paris) & Henriëtte Hendriks (Cambridge)

Typological constraints of language acquisition: motion in French, English and German.

15.00 Eva-Maria Graf (Klagefurt)

When does it really happen? Corpus-based analysis of 6 to 10 year old children’s acquisition of spatial language.

15.45 Coffee break
Section III: Spatial Cognition and its Expression in Language and Gesture
16.15 Shanley Allen, Asli Ozyurek, Sotaro Kita, Reyhan Furman, Amanda Brown, and Tomoko Ishizuka (Boston)

Cross-linguistic developmental differences in the expression of manner and path. Evidence from speech and gesture.

17.00 Marianna Gullberg (Nijmegen)

What gestures reveal about L2 acquisition of placement verbs and their meanings.

17.45 Closing remarks (Hans-Jörg Schmid, ICCLS)
18.30 Dinner at Seehaus im Englischen Garten (Kleinhesselohe 3)