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
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How sound symbolism is processed in the brain: a study on Japanese mimetic words. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Sound symbolism is the systematic and non-arbitrary link between word and meaning. Although a number of behavioral studies demonstrate that both children and adults are universally sensitive to sound symbolism in mimetic words, the neural mechanisms ...
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Sound Symbolism and Onomatopoeia [PDF]
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 The function, realization and the role of sound-symbolic phenomenon can vary in some languages. The study of sound symbolism and onomatopoeia in Armenian, Russian and English showed that highly expressive forms of language occur not only in daily ...
Armine Khachatryan
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Would you hire Liam over Kirk? Name sound symbolism and hiring
Acta PsychologicaSound symbolism is the phenomenon by which certain language sounds evoke particular associations. Previous work has demonstrated that names evoke personality associations based on the sounds they contain, with names containing sonorant consonants evoking
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Prototypeneffekte im Grenzbereich von Phonologie und Morphologie [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2009 This article presents names in science fiction and fantasy stories with problematic morphological structures as well as manufactured names which produce sound symbolic effects.
Hilke Elsen
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Sound and visual symbolism in Mohja Kahf’s (an-nadb) poem “what do we do during genocide?”
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper examines the elegiac expressions of pain, mourning, and resistance in Mohja Kahf’s poem “What Do We Do During Genocide?,” focusing on lamentation (an-nadb) as an aspect of elegy in Arabic poetry.
Hamida Riahi
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Scrunch, growze, or chobble?: investigating regional variation in sound symbolism in the Survey of English Dialects [PDF]
, 2012 This paper draws on data extracted from Upton et al.’s (1994) Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar in investigating the regional distribution across England of sound symbolic phonesthemes, that is, word-initial consonant clusters which ...
Wright, D
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Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English. [PDF]
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Sound symbolism in Japanese names: Machine learning approaches to gender classification. [PDF]
PLoS OneNgai CH, Kilpatrick AJ, Ćwiek A.
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Names with /i/ Suit Positive Faces: The Naming Paradigm [PDF]
Journal of CognitionFeatures of word form (e.g., the vowel i as in meet) are associated with word meaning (e.g., positive valence), termed sound symbolism. Experimentally, sound symbolism is predominantly examined using pseudo-words.
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