Language and thought : classifier effect in early and late bilinguals.

• Main Author: Tang, Huimin.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48056
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Classifiers have been found to influence the conceptual organization of speakers of Mandarin Chinese, which can also be termed the classifier effect. As such, studies have deemed classifier categories to be conceptual categories and not arbitrary systems. Hence, it is argued that classifier system i...