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Imai, Mutsumi, Miyazaki, Michiko, Yeung, Henny H., Hidaka, Shohei, Kantartzis, Katerina and Kita, Sotaro (2015) Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds. PLoS One, 10 (2). e0116494. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116494 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116494
Abstract
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 whether sound symbolism may also facilitate synchronic language learning in human infants. Sound symbolism may be a useful cue particularly at the earliest developmental stages of word learning, because it potentially provides a way of bootstrapping word meaning from perceptual information. Using an associative word learning paradigm, we demonstrated that 14-month-old infants could detect Köhler-type (1947) shape-sound symbolism, and could use this sensitivity in their effort to establish a word-referent association.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sound symbolism, Language acquisition | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 19 February 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 10 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e0116494 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0116494 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 January 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 January 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Japan. Monbu Kagakushō [Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] (MK), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | 15300088 (JSPS), 22243043 (JSPS), 23120003 (MEXT), 25119510 (MEXT), 23300099 (JSPS), BB/G023069/1 (BBSRC) |
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