caa a22 4500 467938407 CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-006-9018-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-006-9018-7 Sound-symbolism: A Piece in the Puzzle of Word Learning [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Parault, Paula Schwanenflugel] Sound-symbolism is the idea that the relationship between word sounds and word meaning is not arbitrary for all words, but rather that there are subsets of words in the world's languages for which sounds and their symbols have some degree of correspondence. The present research investigates sound-symbolism as a possible route to the learning of an unknown word's meaning. Three studies compared the guesses that adult participants made regarding the potential meanings of sound-symbolic and non-sound symbolic obsolete words. In each study, participants were able to generate better definitions for sound-symbolic words when compared to non-sound symbolic words. Participants were also more likely to recognize the meanings of sound symbolic words. The superior performance on sound-symbolic words held even when definitions generated on the basis of sound association were eliminated. It is concluded that sound symbolism is a word property that influences word learning. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Sound symbolism nationallicence Vocabulary development nationallicence Word learning nationallicence Parault Susan College of Education, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, 20742, College Park, MD, USA aut Schwanenflugel Paula University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/4(2006-07-01), 329-351 0090-6905 35:4<329 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9018-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9018-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parault Susan College of Education, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, 20742, College Park, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schwanenflugel Paula University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/4(2006-07-01), 329-351 0090-6905 35:4<329 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer