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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |