The research supported by the CAREER award to Dr. Casasola will examine the cognitive and linguistic abilities that guide infants' and toddlers' acquisition of spatial language. Although languages differ in how they describe spatial events, young children display little difficulty acquiring the semantic categories that are specific to their language. For example, English-learning toddlers learn to map the English preposition "in" onto all types of containment events, for example, placing a peg in a block. Korean-learning toddlers correctly learn to map the Korean spatial verb, "kkita," onto tight-fit containment as well as tight-fit support events, for example, putting a peg in a block made to fit and a Lego block on another Lego block. Hence, by their second birthday, toddlers have begun to acquire language-specific semantic spatial categories, attending to those spatial relations (e.g., tight-fit) that are lexically are relevant to their language. NSF National science foundation sekhar Language is a dualistic phenomena undoubtedly.Otherwise it can not function and become a dynamic entity.I as a subject sees other words as objects in a sentence form.Subject and its object relation framed in a sentence.This is the basis of cause and its effect and which is human perception.This perception is dualistic by nature and its construct.Which extends to feeling Felt or observer observes or seer and its seen.This basic division is duality.thank yousekhar so, where's the dualism? Joe -- Nothing Unreal is Self-Aware @^@~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@^@ http://what-am-i.net @^@~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@^@ ========================================== Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/