Worlds without Words: Commensurability and Causality in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gordon, Peter ^a  

^a Biobehavioral Sciences Department Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Language; Linguistic cognitive correlation; Numerical cognition; Pirah

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051510145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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