Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds.

Sound symbolism, or the nonarbitrary link between linguistic sound and meaning, has often been discussed in connection with language evolution, where the oral imitation of external events links phonetic forms with their referents (e.g., Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). In this research, we explore...

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Main Authors: Mutsumi Imai, Michiko Miyazaki, H Henny Yeung, Shohei Hidaka, Katerina Kantartzis, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Kita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0116494&type=printable
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