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Taste and smell words form an affectively loaded and emotionally flexible part of the English lexicon

Bodo WinterCognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 975-988 | Received 24 Aug 2015, Accepted 14 Apr 2016, Published online: 14 Jun 2016

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Bodo Winter & Mahesh Srinivasan. (2022) Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy. Metaphor and Symbol 37:1, pages 39-54.
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