Universality and language specificity in object naming

By Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Silvia P. Gennari. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages (2007, background): “However, languages often differ in how they label even common objects (eg, Malt & Sloman, 2003 ; Malt, Sloman, & Gennari, 2003 ).”
How bilinguals solve the naming problem (2005, background): “Finally, in a second experimental session, 21 of the 25 bilingual participants (along with monolingual participants who were different from those who performed the naming and sorting reported here) provided typicality ratings for use in more detailed analyses, not reported here, of the structure of ”
Kitchen Russian: Cross-linguistic differences and first-language object naming by Russian–English bilinguals* (2010, background): “Importantly, they (Malt et al., 2003) established that the three languages did not differ simply by diverging in classification of peripheral members of otherwise comparable categories.”
Object Naming and Later Lexical Development: From Baby Bottle to Beer Bottle. (2008, background): “Malt, Sloman, and Gennari (2003) examined in more detail the relation among the linguistic categories of the three languages for the 60 containers and found a complex pattern.”
The New C Standard (Excerpted material) An Economic and Cultural Commentary (2008, unknown): “A study by Malt, Sloman, Gennari, Shi, and Wang[220, 221] showed subjects (who naming cultural differences were native speakers of either English, Chinese, or Spanish) pictures of objects of various shapes and sizes that might be capable of belonging to either of the categories— bottle, jar, or cont”
Linguistic diversity and object naming by non-native speakers of English (2003, methodology): “ Malt et al. (1999, in press) and Malt, Sloman and Gennari (2003) argue that the naming patterns of a language are influenced by a language’s history and the history of the culture that uses it. The vocabulary”