Abstract

Abstract Cognitive science considers the human mind as an information-processing device which processes spatial information, linguistic information, motoric information, etc. (Posner 1989; Wilson and Keil 1999). Our minds are able to link together these different kinds of information in order to make it possible, for example, to talk about what we see or to act upon what we hear. All chapters in this book consider the linking between different kinds of cognitive information. More specifically, each chapter looks at some of the constraints that play a role in linking different kinds of cognitive information to each other. Why is it possible for English speakers to say, for example-when they link visual information to linguistic information-The bike is next to the building, but not The building is next to the bike (Talmy 1983; Landau and Jackendoff 1993)? This chapter looks at some general constraints on linking different kinds of cognitive information, and also shows how the different chapters in this book that address specific constraints fit into this more general picture.

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