What Do Words Do? Toward a Theory of Language-Augmented Thought

Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-297

  Lupyan, Gary ^a  

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EID: 84860630328     PISSN: 00797421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394293-7.00007-8     Document Type: Chapter

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