An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets.

Iconic words imitate their meanings. Previous work has demonstrated that iconic words are more common in infants' early speech, and in adults' child-directed speech (e.g., Perry et al., 2015; 2018). This is consistent with the proposal that iconicity provides a benefit to word learning. Here we expl...

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Publicado en:Journal of Child Language Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 382 - 397
Autores principales: SIDHU, David M., WILLIAMSON, Jennifer, SLAVOVA, Velina, PEXMAN, Penny M.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Mar2022
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