Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models
for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to …

The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

Iconic words and signs are characterized by a perceived resemblance between aspects of
their form and aspects of their meaning. For example, in English, iconic words include peep …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

This review paper summarizes the various brain modules that are involved in speech and
language communication in addition to a left-dominant “core” language network that, for the …

Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are
associated with size, especially high front vowels with 'small'and low back vowels with …

Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the
AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly …

Some spoken words are iconic, exhibiting a resemblance between form and meaning. We
used native speaker ratings to assess the iconicity of 3001 English words, analyzing their …