Do words reveal concepts?

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 519-524

  Malt, Barbara C ^a   Ameel, Eef ^b   Gennari, Silvia ^c   Imai, Mutsumi ^d   Saji, Noburo ^d   Majid, Asifa ^e  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

concepts; cross linguistic diversity; locomotion; naming; universality

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT; CROSS-LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; HUMAN LOCOMOTIONS; LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; LOCOMOTION; NAMING; PHYSICAL SIMILARITIES; SCALING SOLUTIONS; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; UNIVERSALITY;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 85139050435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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