Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1 Functional Features in Language and Space -- 1.1 Part One-Features: Derived from Perception, Action, and Embodiment -- 1.2 Part Two-Function: Definitions and Influence -- 1.3 Part Three-Features that are Functional: Categorization, Learning, and Language -- 1.4 Part Four-Overview of Research in Space and Language -- PART ONE-FEATURES: DERIVED FROM PERCEPTION, ACTION, AND EMBODIMENT -- 2 Language is Grounded in Action -- 2.1 Theories of Meaning -- 2.2 Testing the Indexical Hypothesis -- 2.3 The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3 The Bicycle Pedal is in Front of the Table. Why some Objects do not Fit into some Spatial Relations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Meaning as Embodied Representation -- 3.3 Figures and Grounds -- 3.4 A Study on Locative Sentences -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Dissociation between Verbal and Pointing Responding in Perspective Change Problems -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Experiment 1 -- 4.3 Experiment 2 -- 4.4 General Discussion -- 5 An Ecological Approach to the Interface between Language and Vision -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Schematization and Context Sensitivity -- 5.3 A Model of the Language-Perception Interface -- 5.4 Predictions -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Contextual, Functional, and Geometric Components in the Semantics of Projective Terms -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Common Model of Reference Systems and Projective Prepositions -- 6.3 Functional Asymmetries and Principal Directions -- 6.4 German Projective Terms beyond Prepositions -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Verbs and Directions: The Interaction of Geometry and Function in Determining Orientation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Describing Turning Situations Using the German Verb drehen -- 7.3 Conceptual Semantics for the German Verb drehen -- 7.4 Conclusion.

8 Between Space and Function: How Spatial and Functional Features Determine the Comprehension of between -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Spatial Features Representing Referent Distributions -- 8.3 Visual Functional Features -- 8.4 Linguistic Functional Features -- 8.5 General Functional Features -- 8.6 Dynamic-Kinematic Features -- 8.7 One Lexical Concept but more than one Corresponding Spatial Prototype -- 8.8 The Meaning of between in Context -- PART TWO-FUNCTION: DEFINITIONS AND INFLUENCE -- 9 The HIPE Theory of Function -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The HIPE Theory -- 9.3 Causal Chains in HIPE -- 9.4 Applications -- 10 Towards a Classification of Extra-geometric Influences on the Comprehension of Spatial Prepositions -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 In and On -- 10.3 Projective Prepositions -- over, under, above, below, in front of, and behind -- 10.4 Other Prepositions: The Case of between -- 10.5 Putting Geometric and Extra-geometric Constraints Together: The Functional Geometric Framework -- 11 Is it in or is it on? The Influence of Geometry and Location Control on Children's Descriptions of Containment and Support Events -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 In and on: The Importance of the Extra-geometric Factor of Location Control in Adult Comprehension and Production -- 11.3 Influences of Form and Function: The Development of Object Naming -- 11.4 The Development of in and on in a Child's Lexicon, and the Pre-linguistic Understanding of Containment and Support -- 11.5 Where's the Orange? Geometric and Functional Factors Children's Production of in and on -- 11.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 12 Defining Functional Features for Spatial Language -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Functional Bias -- 12.3 Classificatory Features of the Reference Objects -- 12.4 Principal Components Analysis of the Reference Objects -- 12.5 Implications and Conclusions.

13 Attention in Spatial Language: Bridging Geometry and Function -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 An Attentional Account of Spatial Terms -- 13.3 Testing the AVS Model -- 13.4 Bridging Geometry and Function -- 13.5 Object Function, Attention, and the AVS Model -- 13.6 Can the AVS Model Account for Functional Effects? -- 13.7 Discussion -- 14 Being Near the Ceramic, but not Near the Mug: On the Role of Construal in Spatial Language -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Object and Substance Construals and Functional Information -- 14.3 Construal, Functional Properties, and Spatial Language -- 14.4 A Note on Conventional Objects -- 14.5 Conclusion -- 15 Force and Function in the Acquisition of the Preposition in -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Force, Movement, and Function -- 15.3 The Role of Force in the Use of the Preposition in -- 15.4 Containment and the Family Resemblance C/c -- 15.5 The Acquisition of the Preposition in -- 15.6 Relative Importance of Geometric and Dynamic Factors in the Use of the Preposition in -- PART THREE-FEATURES THAT ARE FUNCTIONAL: CATEGORIZATION, LEARNING, AND LANGUAGE -- 16 Shape: A Developmental Product -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Some Circumstantial Evidence -- 16.3 New Evidence on Developmental Changes in the Perception of Shape Similarity -- 16.4 Toward a Theory of Shape -- 17 Adaptation of Perceptual and Semantic Features -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Featural Approaches -- 17.3 Alternatives to Fixed Features -- 17.4 Semantic Features -- 17.5 Conclusion -- 18 Infants' Attention to and Use of Functional Properties in Categorization -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Developmental Changes in Infants' Attention to an Object's function -- 18.3 Developmental Changes in Infants' Attention to Appearance-Function Correlations -- 18.4 Developmental Changes in Infants' Ability to use Function as a Basis for Categorization.

18.5 Developmental Changes in Background Knowledge Constrain Infants' attention to Appearance-Function Correlations -- 18.6 Conclusions -- 19 Developmental Constraints on the Representation of Spatial Relation Information: Evidence from Preverbal Infants -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Early Category Representations for Objects -- 19.3 Early Category Representations for Spatial Relations -- 19.4 Speculations on an Overall Course of Development for the Representation of Objects and Spatial Relations -- 19.5 Conclusions -- 20 Path Expressions in Finnish and Swedish: The Role of Constructions -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Conceptual Structure Representation -- 20.3 The Problem -- 20.4 Different Ways to Analyze the Swedish Construction -- 20.5 Differences in Syntactico-conceptual Linking between Finnish and Swedish -- 20.6 Formulation of the Swedish Construction -- 20.7 Conclusion -- PART FOUR-THE PERVASIVENESS OF FUNCTIONAL FEATURES IN LANGUAGE AND SPACE -- 21 Form and Function -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Accounting for Spatial Language -- 21.3 Referring to Things -- 21.4 Naming Emphasizes Function -- 21.5 Referring to Spatial Relations -- 21.6 Parting Words -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Terms -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.