Evolution of Semantic Systems -
The Study
We aim to collect data from 20 participants in each of 50 languages from the Indo-European language family. The project is estimated to run for approximately three years, in a data collection phase of one to two years from January 2011.
For each language, we collect naming data for stimuli across our domains of attributes, parts, objects, and relations using a standardised protocol (Majid, Jordan and Dunn 2011).
| ATTRIBUTES: COLOUR | PARTS: BODY PARTS |
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| "What colour is this?" | "Where is the dot?" |
| OBJECTS: CONTAINERS | RELATIONS: SPATIAL |
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| "What is this called?" | "Where is the orange object?" |




