Asifa Majid|Seán G. Roberts|Ludy Cilissen|Karen Emmorey|Brenda Nicodemus|Lucinda O’Grady|Bencie Woll|Barbara LeLan|Hilário de Sousa|Brian L. Cansler|Shak?la Shayan|Connie De Vos|Gunter Senft|N. J. Enfield|Rogayah A. Razak|Sebastian Fedden|Sylvia Tufvesson|Mark Dingemanse|Özge Öztürk|Penelope Brown|Clair Hill|Olivier Le Guen|Vincent Hirtzel|Rik van Gijn|Mark A. Sicoli|Stephen C. Levinson
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen|University of Bristol|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|San Diego State University|Gallaudet University|San Diego State University|University College London|Sorbonne Université|Université Sorbonne Nouvelle|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|Utrecht University|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|University of Sydney|National University of Malaysia|Université Sorbonne Nouvelle|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|University of Cambridge|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|University of Sydney|Lund University|Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social|Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative|Université Paris Nanterre|French National Centre for Scientific Research|University of Zurich|University of Virginia|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen
universal hierarchy senses senses eg vision accessible consciousness linguistic description others eg smell longstanding presumption western thought vision audition objective senses serving basis knowledge understanding whereas touch taste smell crude little value predicts humans ought better communicating sight hearing senses decades work based english related languages certainly suggests true however well reflect diversity languages communities worldwide test whether universal hierarchy senses stimuli five basic senses used elicit descriptions 20 diverse languages including 3 unrelated sign languages found languages differ fundamentally sensory domains linguistically code systematically tendency better coding domains explained part cultural preoccupations although languages seem free elaborate specific sensory domains general tendencies emerge example exceptions smell poorly coded surprise despite gradual phylogenetic accumulation senses imbalances neural tissue dedicated single hierarchy senses imposes upon language