Man and Tree & Space Games
Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown, Eve Danzinger, Lourdes de León, John Beard Haviland, Eric R. A. Pederson, Gunter Senft · Max Planck Digital Library · 1992
These classic tasks can be used to explore spatial reference in field settings. They provide a language-independent metric for eliciting spatial language, using a “director-matcher” paradigm. The Man and Tree task deals with location on the horizontal plane with both featured (man) and non-featured (e.g., tree) objects. The Space Games depict various objects (e.g. bananas, lemons) and elicit spatial contrasts not obviously lexicalisable in English.