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Brain networks underlying the processing of sound symbolism related to softness perception
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
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.
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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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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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
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Sound Symbolism in Marketing: An Integrative Review of Marketing Studies into Sound Symbolism
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
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Haptic sound-symbolism in young Spanish-speaking children.
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
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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
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Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses.
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
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Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression
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
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