... 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. ... Sanford, 1996). 12overly constraining, speakers invent or borrow words from another language, devise similes and metaphors, and sometimes make permanent additions and subtractions to the received...