Language Sciences Talks - Dr. Sachiyo Suda on "Does Meow Convey Who Makes the Sound? Onomatopoeia as "Easy" Input for Young Children"
February 10, 2023, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Join us at the Dodson Room in The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Friday, February 10th, 2023 from 12:00-1:00 pm for the next Language Science Talk featuring Dr. Sachiyo Suda. Dr. Janet Werker, Language Sciences Co-Director will be moderating this event.
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Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64717285534?pwd=NmNxYkhEendvRjlwS0hvUDhwSThvQT09
Meeting ID: 647 1728 5534
Passcode: 429138
Title: Does meow convey who makes the sound? Onomatopoeia as "easy" input for young children.
Abstract:
Onomatopoeia is the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it, such as animal sounds (‘meow’) and the sound of knocking on a door. The Japanese language has a large variety of onomatopoetic words, and children tend to acquire many of them in their early lexicon. The repeated sound structure and sound symbolic features of onomatopoeia have been found to promote children’s word learning; in some cases, the acoustic features of vocalization also play an assisting role. Dr. Sachiyo Suda will introduce a set of studies on Japanese parents’ input of onomatopoeia and its relation to children’s comprehension and lexical development. Cultural differences in the learnability of words spoken with acoustic features that relate to their meaning will also be discussed.
Speaker Bio:
Sachiyo Kajikawa Suda is a visiting scholar at Dr. Janet Werker's Infant Studies Centre and a professor of Developmental Psychology at Tamagawa University, Japan. Her work focuses on the development of speech and music perception in infants and children and their relations with parental inputs and interactions.