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The Thickness of Pitch: Crossmodal Metaphors in Farsi, Turkish, and Zapotec

Shakila Shayan Shakila Shayan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. [email protected]
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Ozge Ozturk Ozge Ozturk is at NYU, Department of Psychology, and was formerly a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. [email protected]
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Mark A. Sicoli Mark Sicoli is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, formerly with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. [email protected]
Pages 96-105 | Published online: 16 Apr 2015

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