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    "pk": 25480,
    "title": "When high pitches sound low:\nChildren’s acquisition of space-pitch metaphors",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Some languages describe musical pitch in terms of spatial\nheight; others in terms of thickness. Differences in pitch\nmetaphors also shape adults’ nonlinguistic space-pitch\nrepresentations. At the same time, 4-month-old infants have\nboth types of space-pitch mappings available. This tension\nbetween prelinguistic space-pitch associations and their\nsubsequent linguistic mediation raises questions about the\nacquisition of space-pitch metaphors. To address this issue,\n5-year-old Dutch children were tested on their linguistic\nknowledge of pitch metaphors, and nonlinguistic spacepitch\nassociations. Our results suggest 5-year-olds\nunderstand height-pitch metaphors in a reversed fashion\n(high pitch = low). Children displayed good comprehension\nof a thickness-pitch metaphor, despite its absence in Dutch.\nIn nonlinguistic tasks, however, children did not show\nconsistent space-pitch associations. Overall, pitch\nrepresentations do not seem to be influenced by linguistic\nmetaphors in 5-year-olds, suggesting that effects of\nlanguage on musical pitch arise rather late during\ndevelopment.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "pitch"
        },
        {
            "word": "Space"
        },
        {
            "word": "Metaphor"
        },
        {
            "word": "LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Acquisition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sarah",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dolsheid",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education, University of Cologne",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sabine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hunnius",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Asifa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Majid",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University; Center for Studies in Language, Radboud University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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