WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.] 论文

2010Max Planck Digital Library引用 4096
Language and cultural evolutionChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentSpeech and dialogue systems

摘要

The linguistic and cognitive sciences have severely underestimated the degree of linguistic diversity in the world. Part of the reason for this is that we have projected assumptions based on English and familiar languages onto the rest. We focus on some distortions this has introduced, especially in the study of semantics.