Preferred sound groups of vocal iconicity reflect evolutionary mechanisms of sound stability and first language acquisition: evidence from Eurasia
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0190
Abstract: In speech, the connection between sounds and word meanings is mostly arbitrary. However, among basic concepts of the vocabulary, several words can be shown to exhibit some degree of form–meaning resemblance, a feature labelled vocal… read more here.
Keywords: sound groups; first language; vocal iconicity; stability ... See more keywords