1992 Field Manual entries
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., Additional info: Volume 1992, filed under Space project. Tags: classics, lexicon, space, How to cite this resource:, 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.
This questionnaire is designed to explore how spatial relations are encoded in Australian language, but may be of interest to researchers further afield., Additional info: Volume 1992, filed under Space project. Tags: lexicon, questionnaire, space, How to cite this resource:, Levinson, S. C. (1992). Space in Australian Languages Questionnaire. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 29-40). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3512641.
This task is designed to elicit expressions of spatial relations. It was originally designed by Melissa Bowerman for use with young children, but was then developed further by Bowerman in collaboration with Pederson for crosslinguistic comparison. It has been used in fieldsites all over the world and is commonly known as “BowPed” or “TPRS”. Older incarnations did not always come with instructions. This entry includes a one-page instruction sheet and high quality versions of the original pictures., Additional info: Volume 1992, filed under Space project. Tags: classics, location, picture stimuli, space, topology, How to cite this resource:, Bowerman, M., & Pederson, E. (1992). Topological relations picture series. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 51). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.883589.
The precursor to the Bowped stimuli, this entry suggests various spatial configurations to explore using real objects, rather than the line drawings used in Bowped., Additional info: Volume 1992, filed under Space project. Tags: lexicon, picture stimuli, topology, How to cite this resource:, Bowerman, M. (1992). Topological Relations Pictures: Static Relations. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 25-28). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3512672.
This entry suggests ways to elicit descriptions of caused motion involving topological relations (the domain of English put IN/ON/TOGETHER, take OUT/OFF/APART, etc.). There is a large amount of cross-linguistic variation in this domain. The tasks outlined here address matters such as the division of labor between the various elements of spatial semantics in the sentence. For example, is most of the work of expressing PATH done in a locative marker, or in the verb, or both?, Additional info: Volume 1992, filed under Space project. Tags: lexicon, picture stimuli, topology, How to cite this resource:, Bowerman, M. (1992). Topological Relations Pictures: Topological Paths. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 18-24). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3512508.
Citation
Melissa Bowerman, Eric Pederson, Stephen C. Levinson, Eve Danziger, Gunter Senft, John B. Haviland, Lourdes de León, and Penelope Brown. (1992). Item "1992 Field Manual entries" in collection "Field Manuals". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/d1168d7f-d2ba-465f-bb34-7461f6e08a57. (Accessed 2023-10-02)
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