Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children
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Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children
Sound-symbolism is the nonarbitrary link between the sound and meaning of a word. Japanesespeaking children performed better in a verb generalization task when they were taught novel sound-symbolic verbs, created based on existing Japanese sound-symbolic words, than novel nonsound-symbolic verbs (Imai, Kita, Nagumo, & Okada, 2008). A question remained as to whether the Japanese children had pic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01169.x