Linguistic determinism and the part of speech.
- 1 July 1957
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 55 (1) , 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0041199
Abstract
Nouns used by young English-speaking children were more reliably the names of things and their verbs more reliably the names of actions than… the nouns and verbs used by English-speaking adults. It was shown experimentally that young English-speaking children take the part-of-speech membership of a new word as a clue to the meaning of the word. In this way, they make use of the semantic distinctiveness of the parts of speech… . Differences between languages in their parts of speech may be diagnostic of differences in the cognitive psychologies of those who use languageKeywords
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