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Kovic, Vanja; Plunkett, Kim; Westermann, Gert – Cognition, 2010
The principle of arbitrariness in language assumes that there is no intrinsic relationship between linguistic signs and their referents. However, a growing body of sound-symbolism research suggests the existence of some naturally-biased mappings between phonological properties of labels and perceptual properties of their referents (Maurer,…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Brain, Phonological Awareness