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    "pk": 26988,
    "title": "Spatial language promotes cross-domain associations in early childhood",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Spatial language is often used metaphorically to describe\nother domains, including time (a long sound) and pitch (a\nhigh sound). How does experience with these metaphors\nshape the associations we make across disparate domains?\nHere, we tested 3- to 6-year-old English-speaking children\nand adults with a cross-domain matching task that assessed\nspace-time and space-pitch mappings. We tested spatial\nrelations that are expressed in English metaphors for time and\npitch, as well as metaphors that are unfamiliar to English\nspeakers, but expressed in other languages. Participants\nperformed a perceptual matching task, in which they matched\npictures and sounds, and a linguistic matching task, in which\nthey matched pictures or sounds to verbal labels. Adults\nreadily matched between space and time and between space\nand pitch, using relations expressed by both familiar and\nunfamiliar metaphors. Children showed an advantage for\nlinguistic matching compared to perceptual matching, but\ntheir performance was similarly unaffected by metaphor\nfamiliarity. Together, these results suggest that spatial\nlanguage promotes the development of cross-domain\nassociations, and that experience with particular spatial\nmetaphors is not required to produce this benefit.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "metaphor theory; linguistic relativity; cross-\nmodal matching"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78j7948x",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ariel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Starr",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mahesh",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Srinivasan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}