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Not just form, not just meaning: Words with consistent form-meaning mappings are learned earlier. [PDF]

Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2022
Cassani G, Limacher N.
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The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? [PDF]

Psychon Bull Rev, 2023
Lev-Ari S, McKay R.
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Children and adults' understanding and use of sound-symbolism in novel words [PDF]

, 2011
Sound-symbolism is the inherent link between the sound of a word and its meaning. The aim of this thesis is to gain an insight into the nature of sound-symbolism.
Kantartzis, Katerina Fransesca
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El lexicón como origen del carácter dinámico de los sistemas de escritura

, 2016
En el marco de la lingüística actual parece ya posible contemplar el lenguaje escrito como un sistema dinámico adaptativo que se configuraría a partir del uso en el lexicón mental de los usuarios; si bien en el devenir evolutivo de la expresión escrita ...
Pérez-Rodríguez, José Henrique; Universidad de Vigo
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IS THAT WHICH GLITTERS IN ENGLISH ALSO GOLD IN SPANISH? Exploration of Bilingual Phonaestheme Transfer

Phonaesthemes, or interlexical repetitions of phoneme clusters sharing an element of meaning across sets of words in a language, are noteworthy form~meaning pairings indicative of compositionality within a word that are neither phones nor morphemes in ...
Brown, Esther L.
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Arbitrariness of Linguistic Sign Questioned: Correlation between Word Form and Meaning in Russian

, 2017
In this paper, we present the results of preliminary experiments on finding the link between the surface forms of Russian nouns (as represented by their graphic forms) and their meanings (as represented by vectors in a distributional model trained on the
Kutuzov, Andrei
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Iconicity in the lab: a review of behavioral, developmental, and neuroimaging research into sound-symbolism. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2015
Lockwood G, Dingemanse M.
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Sound and lexical semantics

This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art of the ways in which the meaning of sounds — traditionally regarded as a paradox — are studied within linguistics.
Thomas Van Hoey
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Phonetic symbolism for size, shape, and motion [PDF]

This thesis examines phonetic symbolism, the meaningful use of individual speech sounds to convey and infer size, shape, and motion. Chapter 1 presents a summary of the literature. Though there is evidence suggesting that phonetic symbolism exists and
Thompson, Patrick Douglas
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Korean Mothers Attune the Frequency and Acoustic Saliency of Sound Symbolic Words to the Linguistic Maturity of Their Children. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2018
Jo J, Ko ES.
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