Sound symbolic naming of novel objects is a graded function

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2392-2404

  Thompson, Patrick D ^a   Estes, Zachary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross modal processing; Iconism; Naming; Phonetic symbolism; Sound symbolism; Statistical language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857088901     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.605898     Document Type: Article

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