The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of ...
Imai M, Kita S.
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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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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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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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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary
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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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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What drives sound symbolism? Different acoustic cues underlie sound-size and sound-shape mappings [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary mappings that exist between phonetic properties of speech sounds and their meaning. Despite there being an extensive literature on the topic, the acoustic features and psychological mechanisms that give rise to
Klemens Knoeferle +3 more
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Iconicity in the lab: a review of behavioural, developmental, and neuroimaging research into sound-symbolism. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism — from infants to adults, and from Sapir's foundational studies to 21st century product naming.
Gwilym eLockwood, Mark eDingemanse
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