The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color
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1 Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA 2 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 3 Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 4 Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA 5 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2016