Storytime : a pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech

• Main Author: Travers Kumar, Juanita
• Other Authors: Suzy Styles
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69392
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sound symbolism and child-directed speech are two universal phenomena that help young children to learn language. This exploratory study investigates possible interactions between audio-visual perception and articulatory motor processes to test if seemingly task-irrelevant properties, such as the sh...