To call a cloud ‘cirrus’: sound symbolism in names for categories or items
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To call a cloud ‘cirrus’: sound symbolism in names for categories or items
The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple noun-hierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned the make up of two categories of unfamiliar objects ('alien life forms'), and were passively exposed to either category-labels or item-labels, in a learning-by-guessing cat...
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عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3466