Language encodes geographical information

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-73

  Louwerse, Max M ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Geographical coordinates; Geography; Latent semantic analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Semantic representations; Spatial cognition; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950697668     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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