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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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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary [PDF]
Entropy, 2010 The relationship between meanings of words and their sound shapes is to a large extent arbitrary, but it is well known that languages exhibit sound symbolism effects violating arbitrariness.
Søren Wichmann +2 more
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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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The Two Meanings of Sound Symbolism
Open Linguistics, 2017 This article deals with sound symbolism and the ways to interpret sound symbolic phenomena. Sound symbolism appears to be a universal phenomenon but linguists tend to neglect it or offer heterogeneous approaches and definitions.
Elsen Hilke
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Sound symbolism in the languages of Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The notion that linguistic forms and meanings are related only by convention and not by any direct relationship between sounds and semantic concepts is a foundational principle of modern linguistics.
Hannah Haynie +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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Sound symbolism facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe evolution of human communication likely centred, in part, on shared intuitions about the mapping of sound to meaning. These sound-meaning intuitions, known as sound symbolism, can be seen for example in the bouba-kiki effect, where nonsense words ...
A. T. Korzeniowska +3 more
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