Iconicity can ground the creation of vocal symbols

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Perlman, Marcus ^a   Dale, Rick ^b   Lupyan, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental semiotics; Iconicity; Language evolution; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949428788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150152     Document Type: Article

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