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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism
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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Random forests, sound symbolism and Pokémon evolution
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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Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds.
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, 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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Sound Symbolism and Onomatopoeia
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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Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sexual selection has resulted in sex-based size dimorphism in many mammals, including humans. In Western societies, average to taller stature men and comparatively shorter, slimmer women have higher reproductive success and are typically considered more ...
Benjamin J Pitcher +2 more
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On Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names
Names, 2021 Recent work has argued that sound symbolism plays a much larger part in language than previously believed, given the assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign.
Stephanie S. Shih, Deniz Rudin
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Action sound–shape congruencies explain sound symbolism [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractSound symbolism, the surprising semantic relationship between meaningless pseudowords (e.g., ‘maluma’, ‘takete’) and abstract (round vs. sharp) shapes, is a hitherto unexplained human-specific knowledge domain. Here we explore whether abstract sound symbolic links can be explained by those between the sounds and shapes of bodily actions.
Margiotoudi, Konstantina +1 more
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Signifiances (Signifying), 2020 After recalling the main empirical evidence in favour of sound symbolism, this Introduction presents the contributions offered by the authors of this issue of Signifiances (Signifying).
Luca Nobile
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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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