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Children and adults' understanding and use of sound-symbolism in novel words [PDF]
, 2011 Sound-symbolism is the inherent link between the sound of a word and its meaning. The aim of this thesis is to gain an insight into the nature of sound-symbolism.
Kantartzis, Katerina Fransesca
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Changing Signs : Testing How Sound-Symbolism Supports Early Word Learning [PDF]
, 2018 Learning a language involves learning how to map specific forms onto their associated meanings. Such mappings can utilise arbitrariness and non-arbitrariness, yet, our understanding of how these two systems operate at different stages of vocabulary ...
Monaghan, Padraic John +2 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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Action sound-shape congruencies explain sound symbolism. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 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 K, Pulvermüller F.
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What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism? [PDF]
Cognition, 2015 Julia Simner
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No unconscious sound symbolism
, 2020 Apparent evidence for unconscious sound symbolism is probably artifactual: Commentary on Heyman, Maerten, Vankrunkelsven, Voorspoels and Moors (in press). Sound-symbolism effects in the absence of awareness: A replication study.
Hugh Rabagliati
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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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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, 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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