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  When high pitches sound low: Children's acquisition of space-pitch metaphors

Dolscheid, S., Hunnius, S., & Majid, A. (2015). When high pitches sound low: Children's acquisition of space-pitch metaphors. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015) (pp. 584-598). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0109/index.html.

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Dolscheid, Sarah1, Author           
Hunnius , S.2, Author
Majid, Asifa2, 3, 4, Author           
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1University of Cologne, Cologne, NRW, Germany, ou_persistent22              
2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations, ou_55236              
3Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              
4Center for Language Studies , External Organizations, ou_55238              

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 Abstract: Some languages describe musical pitch in terms of spatial height; others in terms of thickness. Differences in pitch metaphors also shape adults’ nonlinguistic space-pitch representations. At the same time, 4-month-old infants have both types of space-pitch mappings available. This tension between prelinguistic space-pitch associations and their subsequent linguistic mediation raises questions about the acquisition of space-pitch metaphors. To address this issue, 5-year-old Dutch children were tested on their linguistic knowledge of pitch metaphors, and nonlinguistic space-pitch associations. Our results suggest 5-year-olds understand height-pitch metaphors in a reversed fashion (high pitch = low). Children displayed good comprehension of a thickness-pitch metaphor, despite its absence in Dutch. In nonlinguistic tasks, however, children did not show consistent space-pitch associations. Overall, pitch representations do not seem to be influenced by linguistic metaphors in 5-year-olds, suggesting that effects of language on musical pitch arise rather late during development.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20152015
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Title: 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015)
Place of Event: Pasadena, Cal, USA
Start-/End Date: 2015-07-23 - 2015-07-25

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Title: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015)
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Noelle, D. C., Editor
Dale, R., Editor
Warlaumont, A. S., Editor
Yoshimi, J., Editor
Matlock, T., Editor
Jennings, C. D., Editor
Maglio, P. P., Editor
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Publ. Info: Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society
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