Classifier effects on human categorization: The role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Kuo, Jenny Yi Chun ^a   Sera, Maria D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Classifiers; Linguistic relativity; Mass noun hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749116248     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-008-9036-6     Document Type: Article

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