The relation between linguistic categories and cognition: The case of numeral classifiers

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-428

  Saalbach, Henrik ^a   Imai, Mutsumi ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Concepts; Inductive reasoning; Linguistic relativity; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUCTIVE REASONING; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 84859201959     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.546585     Document Type: Article

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