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Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right
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Metadata
- Authors
- Regier, T., & Kay, P.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-10
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 439-446
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2129088096
- Cited by
- 406
- References
- 59
- FWCI
- 4.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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