Infants’ understanding of signs : linking sounds and concepts

Spoken words are semiotic signs: speech sounds which function to signify concepts in the world. Infants’ emerging understanding of the semiotic relation between sounds and concepts is explored here. First, basic questions from the philosophy of semiotics are recast as broader questions relevant for...

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Main Author: Yeung, Ho Henny
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18182