A Cross-Linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism in Children's Verb Learning

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-265

  Yoshida, Hanako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RELIABILITY; SOUND; SYMBOLISM; VERB LEARNING;

EID: 84860317656     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2011.573515     Document Type: Article

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