Since it is often believed that onomatopoeia is a childish form of language, research on it has not developed. However, Tamori et al. have shown that onomatopoeia is an important language element in Japanese. Moreover, the relation between the development of a child's cognition and onomatopoeia has been demonstrated by Takiura et al. It is thought that this research becomes the key to understanding the relationship between onomatopoeia and cognitive notice. In order to demonstrate that onomatopoeia expresses cognitive notice, the following three investigations were conducted: 1. the function of onomatopoeia in early stages of observation; 2. the function of onomatopoeia in communicating what has been noticed in activity; 3. the transfer function of onomatopoeia. Consequently, the following results were obtained: ○ Onomatopoeia expresses the individual impression m connection with the target tactile feature in the early stages of activity in many cases. Moreover, if activity progresses, the auditory feature will increase. ○ Onomatopoeia is a method of expression that links tactile and visual experiences to the auditory. Thus, onomatopoeia expresses various types of information, and it may become a key to understanding cognitive notice. Moreover, since the target feature is captured correctly and can be communicated, onomatopoeia can be seen as an early stage of scientific thinking. Accordingly, in science education, onomatopoeia can become an effective method of expression.
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