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Publication details [#1802]

Brown, Roger W. and Eric H. Lenneberg. 1954. A study in language and cognition. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 49 : 454–462.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

color terminology | language and thought | Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Annotation

An experiment is described testing an aspect of the Whorfian hypothesis of language and thought. The experiment concerns the correlation of the linguistic coding of colors and the cognitive value of these colors in terms of recognition.