International Convention of Psychological Science, Date: 2017/03/23 - 2017/03/25, Location: Vienna, Austria
Publication date:
2017-03-01
Author:
Djalal, Farah Mutiasari
Voorspoels, Wouter ; Heyman, Tom ; Storms, Gert
Keywords:
concepts, categories, language relativity
Abstract:
Some words are lexically suggestive regarding the taxonomic position of their referent (e.g., starfish in English). To evaluate whether lexical suggestions affect the corresponding concept representation, we conducted two cross-linguistic studies. The results provide evidence that the informative labels indeed influence the category representation.