A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of
words is essentially arbitrary—typically the sound of a word gives no hint of its meaning …

In 2 separate self-paced reading experiments, Farmer, Christiansen, and Monaghan (2006)
found that the degree to which a word's phonology is typical of other words in its lexical …

Using computational simulations, this work demonstrates that it is possible to learn a
systematic relation between words' sound and their meanings. The sound–meaning relation …

Studies of word-level meaning-sound systematicity in English and four other European
languages have shown that words that sound similar tend to have similar meanings. The …

Previous studies have indicated that dependencies between nonadjacent elements can be
acquired by statistical learning when each element predicts only one other element …

A century of research has provided evidence of limited size sound symbolism in English, that
is, certain vowels are non-arbitrarily associated with words denoting small versus large …

In assessing aphasics or conducting experiments using a lexical decision task, we have
observed informally that some non-words (NWs) reliably make people laugh. In this paper …

Across spoken languages, there are some words whose acoustic features resemble the
meanings of their referents by evoking perceptual imagery, ie, they are iconic (eg, in …

Comprehending action words often engages similar brain regions to those involved in
perceiving and executing actions. This finding has been interpreted as support for grounding …