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Sound symbolism: Neural representation and relation to language development| old_uid | 12178 |
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| title | Sound symbolism: Neural representation and relation to language development |
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| start_date | 2013/03/11 |
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| schedule | 11h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle R229 |
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| summary | Sound symbolism refers to a non-arbitrary relationship between linguistic sound and meaning. Recently, sound symbolism has attracted researchers' attention as it seems to be connected to various important issues central to human cognition and language, including cross-modal mappings, synaesthesia, the origin of language, as well as language development and evolution. In this talk, I will present a series of studies conducted in my laboratory that explore (1) when and how sensitivity to sound-meaning correspondences arise in infants; (2) how sound symbolism is used in infant-directed speech; (3) how sound symbolism facilitates initial word-referent association in infants and later verb learning in preschool-age children; and (4) how sound symbolic words (Japanese mimetic words) are represented in the brain. |
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| responsibles | Rämä, Izard |
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