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    "pk": 27951,
    "title": "Changing Signs: Testing How Sound-Symbolism Supports Early Word learning",
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    "abstract": "Learning a language involves learning how to map specificforms onto their associated meanings. Such mappings canutilise arbitrariness and non-arbitrariness, yet, ourunderstanding of how these two systems operate at differentstages of vocabulary development is still not fully understood.The Sound-Symbolism Bootstrapping Hypothesis (SSBH)proposes that sound-symbolism is essential for word learningto commence, but empirical evidence of exactly how sound-symbolism influences language learning is still sparse. It maybe the case that sound-symbolism supports acquisition ofcategories of meaning, or that it enables acquisition ofindividualized word meanings. In two Experiments whereparticipants learned form-meaning mappings from eithersound-symbolic or arbitrary languages, we demonstrate thechanging roles of sound-symbolism and arbitrariness fordifferent vocabulary sizes, showing that sound-symbolismprovides an advantage for learning of broad categories, whichmay then transfer to support learning individual words,whereas an arbitrary language impedes acquisition ofcategories of sound to meaning.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Sound-symbolism"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Vocabulary development"
        },
        {
            "word": "word learning"
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    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g86h8q3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Brand",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Padraic",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Monaghan",
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            "institution": "Lancaster, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Walker",
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            "institution": "Lancaster, Sunway University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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