Color me bitter: Crossmodal compounding in Tzeltal perception words

Senses and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-116

  Brown, Penelope ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b Tzeltal Maya community of Tenejapa ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Color; Crossmodal; Language of perception; Taste; Tzeltal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951780907     PISSN: 17458927     EISSN: 17458935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/174589311X12893982233957     Document Type: Article

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