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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
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Koster, Charlotte; Been, Pieter H.; Krikhaar, Evelien M.; Zwarts, Frans; Diepstra, Heidi D.; Van Leeuwen, Theo H. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Productive vocabulary composition is investigated in 17-month-old children who are participating in an ongoing longitudinal dyslexia research project in the Netherlands. The project is searching for early precursors for dyslexia and follows a group of children who are genetically at risk for dyslexia and a control group during the first 10 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Patterns, Infants