Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Imai, Mutsumi ^a   Miyazaki, Michiko ^b,g   Yeung, H Henny ^c,d   Hidaka, Shohei ^e   Kantartzis, Katerina ^f   Okada, Hiroyuki ^g   Kita, Sotaro ^h  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OTSUMA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUND SYMBOLISM; SPEECH; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; WORD RECOGNITION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SOUND; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84923174423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116494     Document Type: Article

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