The facilitatory role of sound symbolism in infant word learning

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3080-3085

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

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Iconicity of language; Multisensory mapping; Origin of language; Sound symbolism; Word learning

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HUMAN INFANTS; ICONICITY OF LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MULTISENSORY; MULTISENSORY MAPPING; ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES; PRESCHOOL CHILDREN; SOUND SYMBOLISM; WORD LEARNING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85083672659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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