Lexicalization Patterns and the World-to-Words Mapping

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Malt, Barbara C ^a   Gennari, Silvia ^b   Imai, Mutsumi ^c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conceptual representations; Constrained but flexible mapping; Human locomotion; Knowledge of words; Naming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874282338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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