Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 844-858

  Wichmann, Søren ^a,b   Holman, Eric W ^c   Brown, Cecil H ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated similarity judgment program; Language evolution; Linguistics; Sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953494274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12040844     Document Type: Article

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