Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis

By Dedre Gentner, M. Bowerman. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Manuela Macedonia
2. Thomas R. Knösche

Citations in the corpus

• Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning (2011, background): “Considering studies on the acquisition of grammatical categories, (Gentner & Boerman, 2009; Gentner & Boroditsky, 2009), we predict that, within the same training procedure, nouns will be better recalled than verbs, and verbs better memorized than adverbs.”