Naming the Living Things: Linguistic, Experiential and Cultural Factors in Wichí and Spanish Speaking Children

This work focuses on the underlying conceptual structure of children’s category of living things from a cross-cultural, cross-linguistic perspective. School-aged children (n = 129) from three Argentinean communities (rural Wichí-speaking, rural Spanish-speaking, urban Spanish-speaking) were asked to...

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Authors: Taverna, Andrea S. (Author) ; Waxman, Sandra R. (Author) ; Medin, Douglas L. 1944- (Author)
Contributors: Moscoloni, Nora (Other) ; Peralta, Olga A. (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2014, Volume: 14, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 213-233
Further subjects:B Living thing concept folkbiology semantic organization cross-culture cross-linguistic Spanish Wichí
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