Abstract
The linguistic and cognitive sciences have severely underestimated the degree of linguistic diversity in the world. Part of the reason for this is that we have projected assumptions based on English and familiar languages onto the rest. We focus on some distortions this has introduced, especially in the study of semantics.
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- 2010
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- article
- Volume
- 33
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- 103
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- 4095
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Asifa Majid,
Stephen C. Levinson
(2010).
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.].
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)
, 33
, 103.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1000018x
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- 10.1017/s0140525x1000018x