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The Changing Role of Sound-Symbolism for Small versus Large Vocabularies
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Brand, James; Monaghan, Padraic; Walker, Peter – Cognitive Science, 2018
Natural language contains many examples of sound-symbolism, where the form of the word carries information about its meaning. Such systematicity is more prevalent in the words children acquire first, but arbitrariness dominates during later vocabulary development. Furthermore, systematicity appears to promote learning category distinctions, which…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Grammar, Cognitive Mapping