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Brain networks underlying the processing of sound symbolism related to softness perception

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Unlike the assumption of modern linguistics, there is non-arbitrary association between sound and meaning in sound symbolic words. Neuroimaging studies have suggested the unique contribution of the superior temporal sulcus to the processing of sound ...
Ryo Kitada   +7 more
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What drives sound symbolism? Different acoustic cues underlie sound-size and sound-shape mappings

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary mappings that exist between phonetic properties of speech sounds and their meaning. Despite there being an extensive literature on the topic, the acoustic features and psychological mechanisms that give rise to
Klemens Knoeferle   +3 more
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How sound symbolism is processed in the brain: a study on Japanese mimetic words.

open access: yesPLoS 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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Exploring the nature of cumulativity in sound symbolism: Experimental studies of Pokémonastics with English speakers

open access: yesLaboratory 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Introduction : Le symbolisme phonétique à l'âge de l'oralité numérique. Une perspective sur le langage par delà 'nature' et 'culture'

open access: yesSignifiances (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
doaj   +1 more source

Sound Symbolism in Marketing: An Integrative Review of Marketing Studies into Sound Symbolism

open access: yesUluslararası İktisadi ve İdari İncelemeler Dergisi, 2020
Despite an increase in marketing research on sound symbolism particularly since the beginning of 2000s, there is a lack of integrative review of the empirical marketing studies regarding sound symbolism. To address this gap, this study offers a comprehensive review of 46 sound symbolism related marketing articles published between 1970 and 2019.
İlkin YARAN ÖGEL, Gül BAYRAKTAROĞLU
openaire   +3 more sources

Haptic sound-symbolism in young Spanish-speaking children.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Haptic sound symbolism has been found in adults, between ideophones and various textures, between words and shape, and between written words and texture.
Alberto Falcón   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Iconicity Helps People Learn New Words: Neural Correlates and Individual Differences in Sound-Symbolic Bootstrapping

open access: yesCollabra, 2016
Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing.
Gwilym Lockwood   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Sound-symbolism, or the direct link between sound and meaning, is typologically and behaviorally attested across languages. However, neuroimaging research has mostly focused on artificial non-words or individual segments, which do not represent sound ...
Gwilym eLockwood   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The words we use to represent the world shape how we interpret and respond to it; language frames what it represents. In some cases, these frames can have prejudicial effects; for example, ‘workplace flirting’ versus ‘sexual harassment’. This article examines how specific words and phrases (i.e.
Emilia L. Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

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