Languages around the world have words for « this » and « that » according to new research from an international team, led by the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied more than 1,000 speakers of 29 different languages to see how they use demonstratives—words that show where something is in relation to a person talking such as « this cat » or « that dog. »
Languages around the world have words for « this » and « that » according to new research from an international team, led by the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied more than 1,000 speakers of 29 different languages to see how they use demonstratives—words that show where something is in relation to a person talking such as « this cat » or « that dog. »
It was previously thought that languages vary in the spatial distinctions they make—and that speakers of different languages may think in fundamentally different ways as a consequence.
