Results 31 to 40 of about 120,798 (211)
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
doaj +1 more source
Painting with sound: the kaleidoscopic world of Lance Sieveking, a British Radio Modernist [PDF]
, 2013 In the late 1920s, British Radio became briefly and creatively entwined with a broader modernist culture. Largely through a series of spectacular programmes such as The Kaleidoscope (1928), made by the producer Lance Sieveking, the BBC started to develop
Hendy, D J
core +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Prototypeneffekte im Grenzbereich von Phonologie und Morphologie [PDF]
, 2009 This article presents names in science fiction and fantasy stories with problematic morphological structures as well as manufactured names which produce sound symbolic effects.
Elsen, Hilke
core +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +2 more sources
Collabra, 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.
Frontiers 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
Where did Words Come from? A Linking Theory of Sound Symbolism and Natural Language Evolution [PDF]
, 2008 Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that form-meaning correspondence is systematic. Numerous examples of
David Biun +3 more
core +1 more source