The Sound Symbolism Bootstrapping Hypothesis for Language Acquisition and Language Evolution.

Imai, M., & Kita, S. (2014). The Sound Symbolism Bootstrapping Hypothesis for Language Acquisition and Language Evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369(1651).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2014

Volume

369

Issue

1651

DOI

10.1098/rstb.2013.0298

DOI registrant

The Royal Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0298

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linguistics_semiotics

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions
  • Imai-Kita 2014

    This sourceArgues pre-verbal infants are sensitive to sound symbolism and that it helps bootstrap word learning, complicating pure arbitrariness with documented partial iconicity.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract documents sound symbolism as a non-arbitrary sound-meaning mapping and an important design feature of language, backing the iconicity half of this cited account.

    “Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of language, and most importantly, language acquisition.”

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• Iconicity
  • Imai & Kita (2014)

    This sourceImai-Kita sound-symbolism bootstrapping vocabulary acquisition iconic learning.

• Signifier–Signified Duality

  • This sourceImai-Kita sound-symbolism bootstrapping vocabulary acquisition iconic learning.

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