Do classifier categories affect or reflect object concepts?
We conceptualize objects based on sensorimotor information gleaned from real-world experience. To what extent is conceptual information structured according to higher-level linguistic features? We investigate whether classifiers, a grammatical category, shape the conceptual representations of objects. In three experiments native Mandarin speakers (a classifier language) and native Dutch speakers (a language without classifiers) judged the similarity of a target object with four objects (presented as words or pictures). One object shared a classifier with the target, the other objects did not.... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 38, iss 0 |
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University of California |
Schlagwörter: | classifiers / object concepts / Mandarin / Dutch / linguistic relativity / language and thought |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28570006 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3z99f |