The semantic structure of sensory vocabulary in an African language

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 300-305

  Dingemanse, Mark ^a   Majid, Asifa ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ideophones; mental lexicon; semantics; sensory perception; sensory vocabulary

Indexed keywords

PILES; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AFRICAN LANGUAGES; COMMON FEATURES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; FINE GRAINED; IDEOPHONE; MENTAL LEXICON; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; SEMANTIC STRUCTURES; SENSORY VOCABULARY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84867315935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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