caa a22 4500 475756649 CHVBK 20180406123539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008356620617 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008356620617 Linguistic Relativity in Japanese and English: Is Language the Primary Determinant in Object Classification? [Elektronische Daten] [Reiko Mazuka, Ronald Friedman] In the present study, we tested claims by Lucy (1992a, 1992b) that differences between the number marking systems used by Yucatec Maya and English lead speakers of these languages to differentially attend to either the material composition or the shape of objects. In order to evaluate Lucy's hypothesis, we replicated his critical object classification experiment using speakers of English and Japanese, a language with a number marking system very similar to that employed by Yucatec Maya. Our results failed to replicate Lucy's findings. Both Japanese and English speakers, who were comparable in their cultural and educational backgrounds, classified objects more on the basis of shape than material composition, suggesting that Lucy's original findings may have resulted not from differences between the number marking systems of Yucatec Maya and English but rather from differences in the cultural and educational backgrounds of his experimental groups. Alternative accounts of the cognitive consequences of inter-linguistic differences in number marking systems are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Mazuka Reiko Department of Psychology, Duke University, 27708-0085, Durham, NC, U.S.A. aut Friedman Ronald Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, 20742, College Park, MD, U.S.A. aut Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-10-01), 353-377 0925-8558 9:4<353 2000 9 10831 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008356620617 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008356620617 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mazuka Reiko Department of Psychology, Duke University, 27708-0085, Durham, NC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Friedman Ronald Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, 20742, College Park, MD, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-10-01), 353-377 0925-8558 9:4<353 2000 9 10831 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer