Month: July 2018

At the forthcoming ESLP 2018 event, Researcher Michela Caldano will give a talk on Spatial demonstratives and perceptual space: To reach or not to reach in the sagittal and lateral planes? There is much debate regarding the relationship between spatial demonstratives (‘this’ or ‘that’)  and perceptual space. While some have argued for a close mapping between the use of demonstratives and the peripersonal/extrapersonal space distinction (Coventry et al., 2008, 2014; Diessel, 2005, 2014), others have argued that distance from a speaker does not affect demonstrative choice (e.g. Kemmerer, 1999; Peeters et al., 2015).

Michela will highlight her recent experiments investigating the mapping between the use of demonstratives and perceptual space across sagittal and lateral planes using a variant of the ‘memory game’ method (Coventry et al., 2008; Gudde et al., 2018) where participants were instructed to use language to memorise object location to elicit the production of demonstratives (without being aware about the real purpose of the study).

ESR Patricia González Peña will give a talk at the AttLis 2018 conference, organised by NNTU Trondheim, 29^th– 31^st of August.  Patricia, who is hosted by the University of East Anglia, will present her findings on the development of demonstrative words at the talk Effect of distance and ownership on the use of demonstratives in development.

ESR Sara Ramos Cabo from the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab at NTNU, recently gave a talk about her project at a Seminar organised by co-supervisor, Professor Joana Acha Morcillo, at the University of the Basque Country (Faculty of Psychology).