The Changing role of Sound-Symbolism for small versus large vocabularies
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...
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Wiley Commercial Publisher for Cognitive Science Society
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/698/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/698/1/Walker%20Peter%20The%20Changing%20Role%20of%20Sound-Symbolism.pdf |