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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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 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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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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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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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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