CROSS-LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK AS MODULATORS OF SPATIAL THOUGHT
Keywords:
spatial language, spatial thought, special cognition, cross-language feature, special representation.Abstract
Spatial language is a domain that focuses on spatial descriptions of objects and their relations in a given environment. A prominent focus of work in this area has been on describing the end-products of apprehension, including what people understand an utterance to mean or what utterance they choose to produce. The goal of the current article is to review the work that articulates the role of attention in spatial language.
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