Sound to meaning correspondences facilitate word learning

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Nygaard, Lynne C ^a   Cook, Allison E ^a   Namy, Laura L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrariness; Sound symbolism; Spoken language; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349267273     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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