Quantifying Iconicity’s Contribution during Language Acquisition: Implications for Vocabulary Learning

Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed quantification of how iconicity contributes to vo...

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Main Authors: Dominic W. Massaro, Marcus Perlman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2017.00004/full