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Why 'piss' is ruder than 'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making. [PDF]
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Extracting salient sublexical units from written texts: "Emophon," a corpus-based approach to phonological iconicity. [PDF]
Aryani A, Jacobs AM, Conrad M.
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A study of the productivity of twelve English onset phonaesthemes
This thesis studies twelve word-initial phonaesthemes identified in the vocabulary of English. Phonaesthemes (Firth, 1930; 1935) are phonotactic sequences that recur in multiple words with similar meanings. While several scholars have discussed these phonaesthemes (e.g.
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The Psychological Reality of Phonaesthemes
Language, 2004The psychological reality of English phonaesthemes is demonstrated through a priming experiment with native speakers of American English. Phonaesthemes are well-represented sound-meaning pairings, such as English gl- , which occurs in numerous words with meanings relating to light and vision.
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Phonaesthemes: evidence from English and Modern Greek
2003Α problem which morphological theory has left unsolνed is the status of phonaesthetic elements, the so called phonaesthemes (Firth 1930) which can be classified on the basis of the initial consonants, νowels or final consonants of words, associated with a common component of meaning. For example, the sl- and the γl- sequence in English and Modern Greek
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Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English
2019This study compares the canonicity values of Korean paradigmatic phonaesthemes (e.g., pɛŋpɛŋ: pʰɛŋpʰɛŋ ‘a neutral: stronger and more violent motion of circling’; piŋkɨl: pɛŋkɨl ‘twirling of a bigger: smaller object’) and of English non-paradigmatic phonaesthemes (e.g., gl- ‘vision, light’ in glisten, glitter, gleam, glow).
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