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Repeated imitation makes human vocalizations more word-like

2017-06-13

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People have long pondered the evolution of language and the origin of words. Here, we investigate how conventional spoken words might emerge from imitations of environmental sounds. Does the repeated imitation of an environmental sound gradually give rise to more word-like forms? In what ways do these forms resemble the original sounds that motivated them (i.e., exhibit iconicity)? Participants played a version of...

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Literature Corpus work: 256d41aa-37ae-56b2-a1ce-c5f51e9976aa
DOI: 10.1101/149708

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