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SUBMITTER: Imai M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4335030 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20150219 2
Sound symbolism, or the nonarbitrary link between linguistic sound and meaning, has often been discussed in connection with language evolution, where the oral imitation of external events links phonetic forms with their referents (e.g., Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). In this research, we explore whether sound symbolism may also facilitate synchronic language learning in human infants. Sound symbolism may be a useful cue particularly at the earliest developmental stages of word learning, because ...[more]