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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech. For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip, and front vowels are associated with forward-directed limb movements.
Lari Vainio, Lari Vainio, Martti Vainio
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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary [PDF]
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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The Two Meanings of Sound Symbolism
Open Linguistics, 2017 This article deals with sound symbolism and the ways to interpret sound symbolic phenomena. Sound symbolism appears to be a universal phenomenon but linguists tend to neglect it or offer heterogeneous approaches and definitions.
Elsen Hilke
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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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Early Sound Symbolism for Vowel Sounds
i-Perception, 2013 Children and adults consistently match some words (e.g., kiki) to jagged shapes and other words (e.g., bouba) to rounded shapes, providing evidence for non-arbitrary sound–shape mapping.
Ferrinne Spector, Daphne Maurer
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Accounting for the stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model
Open Linguistics, 2019 Sound symbolism refers to stochastic and systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has not received much serious attention in the generative phonology literature, perhaps because most if not all sound symbolic patterns are ...
Kawahara Shigeto +2 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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Languages, 2022 This paper aims to provide the readers with an overview of the nature of sound symbolism in Italian and offers new food for thought to scholars in the under-researched field of sound symbolism in translated literature for young readers.
Pier Simone Pischedda
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Size sound symbolism in the English lexicon
Glossa, 2021 Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are associated with size, especially high front vowels with ‘small’ and low back vowels with ‘large’.
Bodo Winter, Marcus Perlman
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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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