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Early Sound Symbolism for Vowel Sounds [PDF]
i-Perception, 2013 Children and adults consistently match some words (e.g., kiki) to jagged shapes and other words (e.g., bouba) to rounded shapes, providing evidence for non-arbitrary sound–shape mapping.
Ferrinne Spector, Daphne Maurer
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Guessing Meaning From Word Sounds of Unfamiliar Languages: A Cross-Cultural Sound Symbolism Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Sound symbolism refers to a non-arbitrary relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning. With the aim to better investigate this relationship by using natural languages, in the present cross-linguistic study 215 Italian and Polish participants
Anita D’Anselmo +4 more
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Iconicity in the lab: a review of behavioural, developmental, and neuroimaging research into sound-symbolism. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism — from infants to adults, and from Sapir's foundational studies to 21st century product naming.
Gwilym eLockwood, Mark eDingemanse
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The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of ...
Imai M, Kita S.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech. For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip, and front vowels are associated with forward-directed limb movements.
Lari Vainio, Lari Vainio, Martti Vainio
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sexual selection has resulted in sex-based size dimorphism in many mammals, including humans. In Western societies, average to taller stature men and comparatively shorter, slimmer women have higher reproductive success and are typically considered more ...
Benjamin J Pitcher +2 more
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The maluma/takete effect is late: No longitudinal evidence for shape sound symbolism in the first year. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The maluma/takete effect refers to an association between certain language sounds (e.g., /m/ and /o/) and round shapes, and other language sounds (e.g., /t/ and /i/) and spiky shapes.
David M Sidhu +5 more
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Random forests, sound symbolism and Pokémon evolution [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 This study constructs machine learning algorithms that are trained to classify samples using sound symbolism, and then it reports on an experiment designed to measure their understanding against human participants.
Alexander James Kilpatrick +2 more
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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings, is receiving increasing attention in linguistics, psychology and related disciplines.
Shigeto Kawahara +2 more
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Groundings, 2016 Over 100 years ago Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that, aside from onomatopoeia, there is no logical relationship between words and their meanings.
Freya Young
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