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Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition • Vol 47 • No 4
Classifier categories reflect but do not affect conceptual organization.
November 2020 • Laura J. Speed, Jidong Chen, Falk Huettig, Asifa Majid
Do we structure object-related conceptual information according to real-world sensorimotor experience, or can it also be shaped by linguistic information? This study investigates whether a feature of language coded in grammar-numeral classifiers-affects the conceptual representation of objects. We compared speakers of Mandarin (a classifier language) with speakers of Dutch (a language without classifiers) on how they judged object similarity in 4 studies. In the first 3 studies, participants had to rate how simila…
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