People Can Create Iconic Vocalizations to Communicate Various Meanings to Naïve Listeners

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Perlman, Marcus ^a   Lupyan, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; VOCABULARY; VOCALIZATION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH;

EID: 85041822986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20961-6     Document Type: Article

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