• DOI:10.1007/S10831-008-9036-6
Corpus ID: 120382476

Classifier effects on human categorization: the role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese

@article{Kuo2009ClassifierEO,
  title={Classifier effects on human categorization: the role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese},
  author={J. Kuo and M. Sera},
  journal={Journal of East Asian Linguistics},
  year={2009},
  volume={18},
  pages={1-19}
}

J. Kuo, M. Sera

Published 2009

Mathematics

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Chinese is a language that classifies nouns into groups on the basis of shape, material, and size. We asked whether the classification of nouns by shape affects the degree to which Chinese speakers rely on shape when classifying objects. Three experiments examined the degree to which Chinese- and English-speaking adults rely on shape versus taxonomic or functional similarity in a classification task. Across all three experiments, Chinese speakers made significantly more shape choices than… CONTINUE READING

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