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by Barbara Tversky


  words, 184–186

  abstraction, 142

  acquisition by children, 36

  for action, 184–185, 284–285

  arbitrary nature of, 113

  in comics, 249

  denoting certainty versus uncertainty, 181

  describing actions, objects, locations, or relationships, 184–185

  gestures compared to, 110

  literal and abstract usage, 185

  mismatches with gestures, 120–121

  pictures contrasting with, 249–250

  pictures remembered better than, 242

  remote associations among, 266

  of seeing, 184

  as symbols, 141

  world, designing of the, 277–280, 277 (fig.)–280 (fig.)

  writing, 192, 194

  yawns, contagious nature of, 42

  zero, 178–179

 

 

 


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