Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Book

	Preface
	Contributors
1	Reasoning about Shape using the Tangential Axis Transform or the Shape's "Grain"	1
2	A Conceptual Model for Representing Verbal Expressions used in Route Descriptions	19
3	Resolving Ambiguous Descriptions through Visual Information	43
4	An Anthropomorphic Agent for the Use of Spatial Language	69
5	Gesture, Thought, and Spatial Language	87
6	Organization of Temporal Situations	103
7	Grounding Meaning in Visual Knowledge. A Case Study: Dimensional Adjectives	121
8	Understanding How We Think about Space	147
9	The Real Story of "Over"?	165
10	Generating Spatial Descriptions from a Cognitive Point of View	185
11	Multiple Frames of Reference in Interpreting Complex Projective Terms	209
12	Goal-Directed Effects on Processing a Spatial Environment. Indications from Memory and Language	233
13	Memory for Text and Memory for Space. Two Concurrent Memory Systems?	255
	Author index	271
	Subject Index	279