Are Cantonese-speakers really descriptivists? Revisiting cross-cultural semantics

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 320-329

  Lam, Barry ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantonese speakers; Causal historical theory; Cultural differences; Descriptivism; English speakers; Kripke; Philosophical methodology; Proper names; Reference; Semantic intuitions; Truth values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; UNITED STATES; VIGNETTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649188499     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.018     Document Type: Article

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