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Direct linkMaurer, Daphne; Pathman, Thanujeni; Mondloch, Catherine J. – Developmental Science, 2006
A striking demonstration that sound-object correspondences are not completely arbitrary is that adults map nonsense words with rounded vowels (e.g. bouba) to rounded shapes and nonsense words with unrounded vowels (e.g. kiki) to angular shapes (Kohler, 1947; Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). Here we tested the bouba/kiki phenomenon in 2.5-year-old…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Vowels, Language Acquisition, Language Research
