A unified theory of the meaning of some spatial relational terms☆
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I would like to thank Pim Levelt for his encouragement in the early stages of this research, which were carried out while I was a Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The influence of his approach to the meaning of spatial relational terms on my own work should be obvious. His comments on a later version of the paper were also invaluable, particularly in refining my arguments against the principle of canonical orientation. I would also like to thank Jane Oakhill for numerous conversations about spatial relations, which helped to sharpen up my ideas. She, Steve Isard and Phil Johnson- Laird provided useful comments on an earlier draft. Chris Brew presented some written comments after a talk based on that draft. The paper was completed while I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Language and Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Tilburg, the Netherlands. I would like to thank Leo Noordman and the other members of the Werkberband Tekstwetenschap for their hospitality during this period.