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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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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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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 ...
Junko Kanero +4 more
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Guessing Meaning From Word Sounds of Unfamiliar Languages: A Cross-Cultural Sound Symbolism Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Sound symbolism refers to a non-arbitrary relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning. With the aim to better investigate this relationship by using natural languages, in the present cross-linguistic study 215 Italian and Polish participants
Anita D’Anselmo +4 more
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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.
Anita Körner +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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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition [PDF]
, 2010 The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e.
Wrembel, Magdalena
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Sound symbolism, speech expressivity and crossmodality
Signifiances (Signifying), 2020 The direct links existing between sound and meaning which characterize sound symbolism can be thought of as mainly related to two kinds of phenomena: sound iconicity and sound metaphors. The first refers to the mirror relations established between sound
Madureira Sandra +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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