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Words and the mind : how words capture human experience /

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The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Here, the authors present evidence on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects,...

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Other Authors:	Malt, Barbara C., Wolff, Phillip M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistique. psycholinguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics. Semasiologie Kognitive Psychologie Psycholinguistik Psycholinguistik. Sprache > Denken. Denken > Sprache. Electronic books.
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