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To call a cloud ‘cirrus’: sound symbolism in names for categories or items

The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple noun-hierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned the make up of two categories of unfamiliar objects (‘alien life forms’), a...

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Autores principales: Ković, Vanja, Sučević, Jelena, Styles, Suzy J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28674648
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3466