Silvia Gennari

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...

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....

Events versus States: Empirical Correlates of Lexical Classes (2007)

Silvia Gennari

Philosophers and linguists have claimed that verb meanings are divided into semantic types or superordinate categories that differ in internal conceptual structure. In particular, eventive verbs,...

Tense meanings and temporal interpretation / (1999)

Gennari, Silvia.

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