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    "pk": 25690,
    "title": "Congenitally Deaf Children Generate Iconic Vocalizations to Communicate\nMagnitude",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "From an early age, people exhibit strong links between certain\nvisual (e.g. size) and acoustic (e.g. duration) dimensions. Do\npeople instinctively extend these crossmodal correspondences\nto vocalization? We examine the ability of congenitally deaf\nChinese children and young adults (age M = 12.4 years, SD =\n3.7 years) to generate iconic vocalizations to distinguish items\nwith contrasting magnitude (e.g., big vs. small ball). Both\ndeaf and hearing (M = 10.1 years, SD = 0.83 years)\nparticipants produced longer, louder vocalizations for greater\nmagnitude items. However, only hearing participants used\npitch—higher pitch for greater magnitude – which counters\nthe hypothesized, innate size “frequency code”, but fits with\nMandarin language and culture. Thus our results show that\nthe translation of visible magnitude into the duration and\nintensity of vocalization transcends auditory experience,\nwhereas the use of pitch appears more malleable to linguistic\nand cultural influence.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "crossmodal correspondence; deafness; iconicity;\nlanguage evolution; magnitude; vocalization"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g76m05r",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Marcus",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Perlman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}