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  Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq

Wnuk, E., & Majid, A. (2014). Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq. Cognition, 131, 125-138. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.008.

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Wnuk, Ewelina1, 2, Autor           
Majid, Asifa2, 3, 4, Autor           
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1International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, Nijmegen, NL, ou_persistent22              
2Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              
3Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL, ou_persistent22              
4Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL, ou_persistent22              

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 Zusammenfassung: It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and other related languages, data from some non-Western languages challenge this view. Maniq, a language spoken by a small population of nomadic hunter–gatherers in southern Thailand, is such a language. It has a lexicon of over a dozen terms dedicated to smell. We examined the semantics of these smell terms in 3 experiments (exemplar listing, similarity judgment and off-line rating). The exemplar listing task confirmed that Maniq smell terms have complex meanings encoding smell qualities. Analyses of the similarity data revealed that the odor lexicon is coherently structured by two dimensions. The underlying dimensions are pleasantness and dangerousness, as verified by the off-line rating study. Ethnographic data illustrate that smell terms have detailed semantics tapping into broader cultural constructs. Contrary to the widespread view that languages cannot encode odors, the Maniq data show odor can be a coherent semantic domain, thus shedding new light on the limits of language.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2013-06-2820132014
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 Identifikatoren: DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.008
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Titel: Cognition
  Andere : Cognition
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Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Seiten: - Band / Heft: 131 Artikelnummer: - Start- / Endseite: 125 - 138 Identifikator: ISSN: 0010-0277
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925391298