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Publication details [#39915]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2004. Conceptual primes in human languages and their analogues in animal communication and cognition. Language Sciences 26 (5) : 413–441.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

animal communication | cognition | language acquisition | metalanguage | psychology

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article demonstrates that Natural Semantic Metalanguage can also be an efficient instrument to examine animal communication and cognition and that it provides new perspectives on language learning, non-verbal communication, and evolutionary psychology.