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Monaghan, Padraic; Christiansen, Morten H.; Fitneva, Stanka A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (e.g., in the form of sound symbolism or cues to grammatical categories). Yet, paradoxically from a learning viewpoint, most words have an arbitrary form-meaning mapping. We hypothesized that this paradox…
Descriptors: Cues, Investigations, Artificial Languages, Labor