The Changing role of Sound-Symbolism for small versus large vocabularies

• Main Authors: Brand, James, Monaghan, Padraic, Walker, Peter *
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Commercial Publisher for Cognitive Science Society 2017
• Subjects: BF Psychology; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/698/1/Walker%20Peter%20The%20Changing%20Role%20of%20Sound-Symbolism.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/698/

Natural language contains many examples of sound-symbolism, where the form of the word carries information about its meaning. Such systematicity is more prevalent in the words children acquire first, but arbitrariness dominates during later vocabulary development. Furthermore, systematicity appears...