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Languages Support Efficient Communication about the Environment: Words for Snow Revisited
The claim that Eskimo languages have words for different types of snow is well-known among the public, but has been greatly exaggerated through popularization and is therefore viewed with skepticism by many scholars of language. Despite the prominence of this claim, to our knowledge the line of reas...
Autores principales: | Regier, Terry, Carstensen, Alexandra, Kemp, Charles |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27073981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151138 |
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