Ideophones are words in a language where there's a perceived connection between the sounds of the word and its meaning. Because of this perceived connection, it's thought that ideophones might be more easily learnable by children. This video summarizes a set of experiments that looks at just that question! Original Research Article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.13268 Research Summary (written for a general audience) https://www.thomasvanhoey.com/post/reassessing/ Wikipedia: Ideophones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideophone Like this video? Want early access to videos, bonus videos, and ad-free content? Consider becoming a Linguistic Discovery patron! https://patreon.com/LinguisticDiscovery #ideophones #onomatopoeia #linguistics #language #science