Regular ArticleDoes Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time☆
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This research was funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to the author. Foremost, I thank Jennifer Y. Lee, who has made countless contributions to this research and has been an invaluable source of information about the Mandarin language. I thank Barbara Tversky, Gordon Bower, and Herbert Clark for many insightful discussions of this research and Michael Ramscar for comments on an earlier draft of this article.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Lera Boroditsky, Department of Psychology, Bldg. 420, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130. E-mail to [email protected].
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