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Lockwood, Gwilym; Dingemanse, Mark; Hagoort, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The existence of sound-symbolism (or a non-arbitrary link between form and meaning) is well-attested. However, sound-symbolism has mostly been investigated with nonwords in forced choice tasks, neither of which are representative of natural language. This study uses ideophones, which are naturally occurring sound-symbolic words that depict sensory…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Vocabulary Development, Indo European Languages, Japanese