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Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants
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All Giraffes Have Female-Specific Properties: Influence of Grammatical Gender on Deductive Reasoning About Sex-Specific Properties in German Speakers
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In: Cognitive science. a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology. Journal of the Cognitive Science Society 38 (2014) 3, 514-536
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IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
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The image-scratch paradigm: a new paradigm for evaluating infants' motivated gaze control
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How Sound Symbolism Is Processed in the Brain: A Study on Japanese Mimetic Words
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Sound symbolism is the systematic and non-arbitrary link between word and meaning. Although a number of behavioral studies demonstrate that both children and adults are universally sensitive to sound symbolism in mimetic words, the neural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have not yet been extensively investigated. The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how Japanese mimetic words are processed in the brain. In Experiment 1, we compared processing for motion mimetic words with that for non-sound symbolic motion verbs and adverbs. Mimetic words uniquely activated the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS). In Experiment 2, we further examined the generalizability of the findings from Experiment 1 by testing another domain: shape mimetics. Our results show that the right posterior STS was active when subjects processed both motion and shape mimetic words, thus suggesting that this area may be the primary structure for processing sound symbolism. Increased activity in the right posterior STS may also reflect how sound symbolic words function as both linguistic and non-linguistic iconic symbols.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097905 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026540 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24840874
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A developmental shift from similar to language specific strategies in verb acquisition: A comparison of English, Spanish, and Japanese
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