Vocal Imitations of Non-Vocal Sounds.

Imitative behaviors are widespread in humans, in particular whenever two persons communicate and interact. Several tokens of spoken languages (onomatopoeias, ideophones, and phonesthemes) also display different degrees of iconicity between the sound of a word and what it refers to. Thus, it probably...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Lemaitre, Olivier Houix, Frédéric Voisin, Nicolas Misdariis, Patrick Susini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5161510?pdf=render