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sound symbolism: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

nonarbitrary links between speech sounds and meanings that can help learners, such as children mapping new verbs.

In psycholinguistics, sound symbolism refers to nonarbitrary links between speech sounds and meanings that can help learners, such as children mapping new verbs. This meaning comes from Imai (2008) in Cognition.[1]

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brand name sound symbolism1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct cognition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs frequency code1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Imai, M., Kita, S., Nagumo, M., & Okada, H. (2008). Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning. Cognition, 109(1), 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.015

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