A linguistic contrast between English and Korean provides a telling test of different ideas about whether thought precedes the acquisition of language, or whether certain concepts are language-specific.
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Bloom, P. Children think before they speak. Nature 430, 410–411 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/430410a
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