The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
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Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
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Do people who speak different languages think differently, even when they are not using language? To find out, we used nonlinguistic psychophysical tasks to compare mental representations of musical pitch in native speakers of Dutch and Farsi. Dutch speakers describe pitches as high (hoog) or low (laag), whereas Farsi speakers describe pitches as t...
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The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1364721728
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1364721728
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0956-7976
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1467-9280
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10.1177/0956797612457374
