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Imai, Mutsumi; Kita, Sotaro; Nagumo, Miho; Okada, Hiroyuki – Cognition, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Verbs, Japanese, Auditory Stimuli, Young Children
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Chambers, Kyle E.; Onishi, Kristine H.; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2003
Two experiments investigated whether novel phonotactic regularities, not present in English, could be acquired by 16.5-month-olds from brief auditory experience. Subjects listened to consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in which particular consonants were artificially restricted to either initial or final position. Findings in a subsequent…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Processing, Learning Processes
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Plunkett, Kim; Marchman, Virginia A. – Cognition, 1996
Presents the goals of the Plunkett and Marchman (PM) connectionist model of the acquisition of verb morphology, and responds to related criticisms. Claims that small vocabulary size allows young children to correctly produce both regular and irregular past tense forms, and that non-linearities in vocabulary growth are a contributing factor to the…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Language Processing