Frames of Spatial Reference and Their Acquisition in Tenejapan Tzeltal

Abstract

In this chapter, we describe a line of research, essentially independent of the Piagetian tradition, which, nevertheless, bears on some of the central tenets of Piagetian thinking. We describe some specific results concerning language learning in a Mayan Indian communi- ty in southern Mexico, where the essential spatial discriminations in language and cognition employ Euclidean rather than topological or projective concepts and where these linguis- tic terms-despite their apparent complexity-seem to be learned very early by children.

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