Context affects scale selection for proximity terms

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 292-312

  Burigo, Michele ^a   Coventry, Kenny ^b,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; Distance; Proximity prepositions; Scale; Spatial language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960246687     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875861003797719     Document Type: Article

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