Talking about walking: Biomechanics and the language of locomotion (2008)
Malt, Barbara C., Gennari, Silvia, Imai, Mutsumi, Ameel, Eef, Tsuda, Naoaki, Majid, Asifa
What drives humans around the world to converge in certain ways in their naming while diverging dramatically in others? We studied how naming patterns are constrained by investigating whether...
Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman
Languages vary idiosyncratically in the sets of referents to which common nouns are applied. To use nouns as a native speaker would, second language learners must acquire language-specific naming...
Medin for suggesting use of the Cultural Consensus (2007)
Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Silvia Gennari, Meiyi Shi, Yuan Wang, Barbara Malt, ...
We argue that it is important to distinguish between categorization as object recognition and as naming because the relation between the two may not be as straightforward as has often been assumed....
Steven Sloman, Steven A. Sloman, Barbara C. Malt
Essentialism and artifact kinds 2 We evaluate three theories of categorization in the domain of artifacts. Two theories are versions of psychological essentialism; they posit that artifact...
Please address correspondence to: (2007)
Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Silvia P. Gennari
We thank Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow for helpful comments on a previous draft of the chapter. 2 A strong version of the Whorfian hypothesis is that the influence of language on thought is...
Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman
Rather than having universal linguistic categories for sets of common objects, languages develop their own, idiosyncratic naming patterns for them. Accounting for these patterns requires reference...
Universality and language specificity in object naming (2003)
Memorial Dr. East, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Silvia P. Gennari
Object Naming Rather than having universal linguistic categories for some sets of common objects, languages develop their own, idiosyncratic naming patterns for them. Accounting for these patterns...
Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds (2003)
Steven A. Sloman, Barbara C. Malt
We evaluate three theories of categorisation in the domain of artifacts. Two theories are versions of psychological essentialism; they posit that artifact categorisation is a matter of judging...
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Anaphora and discourse structure /--by Barbara C. Malt. (1982)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1982.
Anaphora and discourse structure [microform] / (1982)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1982.