Iconicity in English Vocabulary and its Relation to Toddlers' Word Learning

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1859-1864

  Perry, Lynn K ^a   Perlman, Marcus ^a   Lupyan, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

English; iconicity; sound symbolism; vocabulary; word learning

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; ICONIC VOCABULARY; ICONICITY; ICONICS; LEARN+; PROPERTY; SOUND SYMBOLISM; VOCABULARY; WORD LEARNING;

EID: 84942170003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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