An example of the study’s language sample and the words for arm/hand and leg/foot in English and Wolof. Credit: Dr. Annika Tjuka/MPI-EVA Human bodies have similar designs. However, languages differ in the way they divide the body into parts and name them. For example, English speakers have two words for foot and leg, whereas other languages express the concepts foot and leg in one word. The study of the variation in body part vocabularies across diverse languages has attracted the attention of researchers in linguistics, anthropology and psychology for many Read More
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