Attention to endpoints: A cross-linguistic constraint on spatial meaning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 705-719

  Regier, Terry ^a   Zheng, Mingyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Attention; Chinese; English; Language and thought; Semantic universals; Spatial language; Spatial motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547992216     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326900701399954     Document Type: Article

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