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Remembering that big things sound big: Sound symbolism and associative memory. [PDF]
Cogn Res Princ Implic, 2017 Preziosi MA, Coane JH.
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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 Basic Vocabulary
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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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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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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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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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 synesthesia: evidence from a lexical-gustatory synesthete [PDF]
, 2013 Synesthesia is a condition in which perceptual or cognitive stimuli (e.g., a written letter) trigger atypical additional percepts (e.g., the color yellow).
Bankieris K. +8 more
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Laboratory Phonology, 2021 There has been a dramatic rise of interest in sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Despite this, one aspect that is still markedly under-explored is its cumulative nature, i.e., when there are two or more sounds with the ...
Shigeto Kawahara
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