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Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning
2008
Cognition
Some words are sound-symbolic in that they involve a non-arbitrary relationship between sound and meaning. Here, we report that 25-month-old children are sensitive to cross-linguistically valid sound-symbolic matches in the domain of action and that this sound symbolism facilitates verb learning in young children. We constructed a set of novel soundsymbolic verbs whose sounds were judged to match certain actions better than others, as confirmed by adult Japanese-as well as English speakers, and
doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.015
pmid:18835600
fatcat:hxmkxwmarfdw7pwtseyh3qkw5q