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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I draw on multi‐sited and remote ethnography in the cities of Munich in Germany and Hanoi in Vietnam to analyze how young hip hop artists transform cities as sensory contact zones through rap and dance. I show how young Vietnamese‐Germans amplify sensory contact zones in the diasporic city of Munich through the sounds, visuals,
Sandra Kurfürst
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Voice quality has robust visual associations in English and Japanese speakers
Open LinguisticsWhile most studies on sound symbolism have examined the meaning of consonants and vowels, suprasegmentals can also have meaning. English and Japanese speakers rated systematically created novel words (e.g., /ába/) pronounced in four types of voice ...
Akita Kimi
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The Tasty Side of Numbers: How Vowel Type Influences Taste Perceptions for Numerical Brand Names
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 11, Page 3065-3076, November 2026.ABSTRACT Numerical brand names are commonly used in food marketing yet underexplored for their sensory impact. Relying on processing fluency theory, across four studies, including an IAT (n = 149), a quantitative and qualitative lexical analysis of professional wine tasting notes (n = 695), an online study (n = 306), and archival consumer wine ratings (
Nathalie Spielmann, Diego Vega
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Phonetic symbolism for size, shape, and motion [PDF]
This thesis examines phonetic symbolism, the meaningful use of individual speech sounds to convey and infer size, shape, and motion. Chapter 1 presents a summary of the literature. Though there is evidence suggesting that phonetic symbolism exists and
Thompson, Patrick Douglas
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The Case for Sound Symbolism [PDF]
, 1999 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.
Nuckolls, Janis B.
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Resolving the bouba-kiki effect enigma by rooting iconic sound symbolism in physical properties of round and spiky objects. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Fort M, Schwartz JL.
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The Sounds of Trust: The Bouba–Kiki Effect in Political Leaders' Names
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 955-978, November 2026.ABSTRACT Prior research has found evidence for the bouba–kiki effect according to which individuals associate sounds related to “bouba” and “kiki” with shapes and feelings. Using individual data from the World Values Survey, we investigate whether political leaders with names that sound “bouba” or “kiki” are associated with higher or lower trust.
Caroline Perrin, Laurent Weill
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The facilitatory role of sound symbolism in infant word learning [PDF]
, 2013 Sound symbolism or the nonarbitrary link between language sound and meaning are commonly found across many languages of the world. A well-known example is the association between rounded vs. angular shapes and labels (i.e., Köhler, 1929/1947).
Miyazaki, Michiko +6 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsSound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary relationship between phonemes and specific perceptual attributes. Few studies have focused on the sound symbolic associations between Mandarin phonemes and multiple perceptual dimensions, including social ...
Yi Li, Xiaoming Jiang
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Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 20, 21 October 2026.This article explores the transformative potential of symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of materials science, particularly in leveraging experimental data. The article presents several symbolic AI models and discusses their applications in materials science.
Ahmed Amrani +7 more
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