The linguistic analogy: Motivations, results, and speculations

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 486-510

  Dwyer, Susan ^a   Huebner, Bryce ^b   Hauser, Marc D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linguistic analogy; Moral development; Moral faculty; Moral judgment

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MORALITY;

COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MORALS;

EID: 77958555188     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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