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Is un stylo sharper than une épée? Investigating the interaction of sound symbolism and grammatical gender in English and French speakers

While the arbitrariness of language has long been considered one of its defining features, there is growing evidence that non-arbitrariness also plays an important role. Here we investigated two sources of non-arbitrariness: systematicity (via grammatical gender) and iconicity (via shape sound symbo...

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Autores principales: Sidhu, David M., Pexman, Penny M., Saint-Aubin, Jean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31825960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225623