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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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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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What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism? [PDF]
Cognition, 2015 Julia Simner
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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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The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
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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, 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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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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