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Language Relativity

Language Relativity is a theoretical construct in linguistic anthropology and cognitive science positing that the structural and lexical properties of a language influence the ways in which its speakers perceive, categorize, and reason about sensory and conceptual experiences, particularly in the domain of color.

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2017–2026

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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Celia Roberts · International Journal of Bilingualism · 1997 · 2.8K citations

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Why Nouns are Learned Before Verbs : Linguistic Relativity versus Natural Partitioning

Dedre Gentner · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1982 · 970 citations · Full text

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Color categories are not universal: Replications and new evidence from a stone-age culture.

Debi Roberson, Ian Davies, Jules Davidoff · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2000 · 619 citations

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Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis.

Jane H. Hill, John A. Lucy · Man · 1993 · 515 citations

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On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries

Valentine Hacquard · Natural Language Semantics · 2010 · 440 citations

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Authors

209

  1. ID
    Ian Davies

    University of Surrey, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. PA
    Panos Athanasopoulos

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 297 citations

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  3. JD
    Jules Davidoff

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 971 citations

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  4. DR
    Debi Roberson

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 971 citations

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  5. MI
    Mutsumi Imai

    Keio University Shonan Fujisawa, Japan

    4 publications · 293 citations

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Institutions

131

  1. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    3.6K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    3.7K citations

  3. University of Surrey

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    243 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    563 citations

  6. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    1K citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    184 citations

  8. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    460 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    9 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Language Learning

    6 publications · 513 citations

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  3. British Journal of Psychology

    5 publications · 335 citations

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  4. Language

    4 publications · 513 citations

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  5. Current Anthropology

    CA · 4 publications · 837 citations

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