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    "pk": 27213,
    "title": "Iconicity in Word Learning: What Can We Learn from Cross-SituationalLearning Experiments?",
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    "abstract": "Iconicity, i.e. resemblance between form and meaning, is awidespread feature of natural language vocabulary (Perniss,Thompson, & Vigliocco, 2010), and has been shown tofacilitate vocabulary acquisition (Imai, Kita, Nagumo, &Okada). But what kind of advantage does iconicity actuallygive? Here we use cross-situational learning (Yu & Smith,2007), to address the question for sound-shape iconicity (theso-called kiki-bouba effect, Ramachandran & Hubbard,2001). In contrast to Monaghan, Mattock, and Walker (2012),Experiment 1 suggests that the iconicity advantage comesfrom referential disambiguation rather than more efficientmemory encoding. Experiments 2 and 3 replicate this result,and moreover show that the kiki-bouba effect is roughlyequally strong for sharp and rounded shapes, a property thatclassic experiments were unable to confirm, and which hasimplication for the effect’s mechanism",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "iconicity; cross-situational learning; kiki-bouba"
        },
        {
            "word": "vocabulary acquisition; artificial language learning; sound-symbolism"
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    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jones",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University College London",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gabriella",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vigliocco",
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            "institution": "University College London",
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    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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