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Universality and language specificity in object naming
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“Finally, in a second experimental session, 21 of the 25 bilingual participants (along with monolingual participants who were different from those who performed the naming and sorting reported here) provided typicality ratings for use in more detailed analyses, not reported here, of the structure of the linguistic cate…”
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- Authors
- Malt, B. C., Sloman, S. A., & Gennari, S. P.
- Affiliations
- Lehigh University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Malt, Barbara C.
- Venue
- Journal of Memory and Language
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-07
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-42
- ISSN
- 0749-596X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998032198
- Cited by
- 143
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Memory and Language (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language and Culture
- Keywords
- object naming, linguistic categories, language specificity, universality, containers, cross-linguistic comparison, English language, Spanish language, Chinese, stimulus characteristics, cultural history, categorization
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