Sound symbolism in the languages of Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Haynie, Hannah ^a   Bowern, Claire ^a   LaPalombara, Hannah ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND SYMBOLISM; VOWEL; LANGUAGE; SOUND; SYMBOLISM;

AUSTRALIA; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SOUND; SYMBOLISM; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84899700770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092852     Document Type: Article

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