... devise similes and metaphors, and sometimes make permanent additions and subtractions to the received tongue. It would be hard to understand how they do so if language were itself, and all at once, ... procedure and particular stimulus characteristics. For an important review, see Munich & Landau (2003). To appear in K. Holyoak and B. Morrison (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. ... persons, places, and things surface as nouns, are universal and thus 3 Categorical perception for speech sounds has been documented for other species including chincillas and macaques [e.g....