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Direct linkLam, Barry – Cognition, 2010
In an article in "Cognition" [Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., & Stich, S. (2004). "Semantics cross-cultural style." "Cognition, 92", B1-B12] present data which purports to show that East Asian Cantonese-speakers tend to have descriptivist intuitions about the referents of proper names, while Western English-speakers tend to have…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semantics, Cultural Differences, Cultural Background
