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bouba/kiki effect

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non-arbitrary attachment of sounds to object shapes

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International Phonetic Alphabet

International Standard Book Number

digital object identifier

International Standard Serial Number

University of Padua

first language acquisition

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Cognitive science Phonaesthetics Psycholinguistics

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cognitive linguistics

Wolfgang Köhler

universal language

Japanese sound symbolism

sound symbolism

origin of language

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