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What's in a word?: Studies in phonosemantics

open access: yes, 2001
The notion that there is a regular correlation between the form of aword and its meaning is, of course, controversial. In this dissertation my intention has been to shed light on that controversy by conducting a variety of tests -- for the most part on a fairly large scale -- which quantify the extent of the correspondence between sound and meaning in ...
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Universal Phonosemantic Structure of Denial and Prohibition

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This study presents a novel phonosemantic theory suggesting that denial and prohibition morphemes across human languages tend to follow a universal acoustic pattern: an open vowel followed by a closing consonant. This sound pattern is interpreted as a symbolic enactment of physical motion—opening followed by closure—mirroring the human gesture of ...
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Phonosemantics: Ongoing Issues and Modern Perspectives

open access: yesScience and Education a New Dimension, 2019
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Phonosemantics of Works by Jiyenbay Izbaskanov

ACADEMICIA an International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
AbstractThe phonetic method of expressing expressiveness is the most versatile method used in speech more productively than other methods. Phonostylistics refers to methods of using the stylistic possibilities of speech sounds to increase the efficiency of speech, phonosemantics studies the relationship of sounds in speech with meaning.
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An Interface for Phonosemantic Assessment of Russian Words [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 12th International Conference on “Electronics, Communications and Computing", 2022
This paper describes an interface for the phonosemantic evaluation for Russian words. By phonosemantics we mean the subconscious emotional interpretation of the acoustic perception of words independent of their meaning. The given method is based on data about the emotional perception of sounds, obtained from a sample of respondents.
Tatiana Burlea, Victoria Bobicev
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PHONOSEMANTICS: Phonemes of Modern Greek Can Express Inherent Meanings? [PDF]

open access: yesUC Journal: ELT, Linguistics and Literature Journal, 2022
There are four categories of phonological iconicity (sound symbolism or phonosemantics): lexical and non-lexical onomatopoeia (direct phonological iconicity), associative and phonaesthetic iconicity (indirect phonological iconicity).
Tilikidou, Elpida
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Phonosemantics and Its Possible Modern Interpretation

Vestnik Moskovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Lingvističeskogo Universiteta Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2022
R.K. POTAPOVA   +2 more
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