Knowing versus Naming: Similarity and the Linguistic Categorization of Artifacts

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 230-262

  Malt, Barbara C ^a   Sloman, Steven A ^b   Gennari, Silvia ^c   Shi, Meiyi ^c   Wang, Yuan ^c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0001757936     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1998.2593     Document Type: Article

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