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The Case for Sound Symbolism

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1999
▪ Abstract  The proposal that linguistic sounds such as phonemes, features, syllables, or tones can be meaningful, or sound-symbolic, contradicts the principles of arbitrariness and double articulation that are axiomatic to structural linguistics. Nevertheless, a considerable body of research that supports principles of sound symbolism has accumulated.
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The connotative meanings of sound symbolism in brand names: A conceptual framework

Journal of Business Research, 2022
Kosuke Motoki, Jaewoo Park, Abhishek Pathak   +2 more
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Imitation of Sound, Sound Symbolism, Expression

1979
Imitation of sounds as the germ of human speech—Humboldt’s dichotomy—Evolution of onomatopoeia—Traces of sound symbolism in linguistic behavior—“Maluma” and “takete”—Matching experiments in the mother tongue and an unknown second language—Concept of physiognomy—Werner’s theory of symbol formation—Ertel’s psychophonetics.
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Sound Symbolism

2014
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Sound symbolism and synaesthesia: synaesthetes’ sensitivity to sound symbolism and the role of sound symbolism in lexical-gustatory synaesthesia

2012
Sound symbolism is the phenomenon of cross-modal correspondences non-arbitrarily linking phonological components and semantic meanings in language (e.g., words meaning round contain a high proportion of rounded vowels such as /u/; Mathur, 2010). Our study suggests that this cross-modal phenomenon is related to synaesthesia, a cross-modal phenomenon ...
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Sound and Symbol

Journal of Music Theory, 1957
David Kraehenbuehl, Victor Zuckerkandl, Willard R. Trask   +2 more
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The sound of V, and the symbol for it

Notes and Queries, 1895
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Is a boat bigger than a ship? Null results in the investigation of vowel sound symbolism on size judgements in real language

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2023
David M Sidhu, Penny M Pexman
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The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
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Japanese Sound‐Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English‐Speaking Children

Cognitive Science, 2011
Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita   +2 more
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