Action sound-shape congruencies explain sound symbolism. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 AbstractSound symbolism, the surprising semantic relationship between meaningless pseudowords (e.g., ‘maluma’, ‘takete’) and abstract (round vs. sharp) shapes, is a hitherto unexplained human-specific knowledge domain. Here we explore whether abstract sound symbolic links can be explained by those between the sounds and shapes of bodily actions.
Margiotoudi K, Pulvermüller F.
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Brain networks underlying the processing of sound symbolism related to softness perception [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Unlike the assumption of modern linguistics, there is non-arbitrary association between sound and meaning in sound symbolic words. Neuroimaging studies have suggested the unique contribution of the superior temporal sulcus to the processing of sound ...
Ryo Kitada +7 more
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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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Sound symbolism is not "marginal" in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books. [PDF]
PLoS ONEContrary to the widespread notion that linguistic signs are arbitrary, researchers have consistently demonstrated the existence of sound symbolism in language, providing evidence for non-arbitrariness in sound-meaning associations. However, much evidence
Yingying Meng, Yuwei Wan, Chunyu Kit
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The sound symbolism of food: the frequency of initial /PA-/ in words for (staple) food [PDF]
Linguistics, 2023 In different languages around the world, morphemes representing the (cooked form of) staple food or food in general tend to begin with a [+labial] phoneme followed by a [+low] phoneme (/pa-/, /ma-/, /fa-/, /wa-/, etc.). This article provides evidence for
Joo Ian
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Haptic sound-symbolism in young Spanish-speaking children. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Haptic sound symbolism has been found in adults, between ideophones and various textures, between words and shape, and between written words and texture.
Alberto Falcón +3 more
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Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sound symbolism, or the nonarbitrary link between linguistic sound and meaning, has often been discussed in connection with language evolution, where the oral imitation of external events links phonetic forms with their referents (e.g., Ramachandran ...
Mutsumi Imai +6 more
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What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism? [PDF]
Cognition, 2015 Sound symbolism is a property of certain words which have a direct link between their phonological form and their semantic meaning. In certain instances, sound symbolism can allow non-native speakers to understand the meanings of etymologically ...
Bankieris K, Simner J.
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Low- and high-frequency vowels in the stressed syllable of French first names may respectively project impressions of largeness/masculinity and smallness/femininity.
Alexandre Suire +3 more
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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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