Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq

Cognition

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 125-138

  Wnuk, Ewelina ^a,b   Majid, Asifa ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aslian; Cross cultural; Maniq; Olfaction; Olfactory naming; Perceptual language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PLEASURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SMELLING; YOUNG ADULT; BOOK; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESTHETICS; ETHNOGRAPHY; HAPPINESS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANIQ; NORMAL HUMAN; TASTE;

ASLIAN; CROSS-CULTURAL; MANIQ; OLFACTION; OLFACTORY NAMING; PERCEPTUAL LANGUAGE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892852382     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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