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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech. For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip, and front vowels are associated with forward-directed limb movements.
Lari Vainio, Lari Vainio, Martti Vainio
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Sound symbolism is not "marginal" in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books. [PDF]
PLoS ONEContrary to the widespread notion that linguistic signs are arbitrary, researchers have consistently demonstrated the existence of sound symbolism in language, providing evidence for non-arbitrariness in sound-meaning associations. However, much evidence
Yingying Meng, Yuwei Wan, Chunyu Kit
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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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The maluma/takete effect is late: No longitudinal evidence for shape sound symbolism in the first year. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The maluma/takete effect refers to an association between certain language sounds (e.g., /m/ and /o/) and round shapes, and other language sounds (e.g., /t/ and /i/) and spiky shapes.
David M Sidhu +5 more
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What drives sound symbolism? Different acoustic cues underlie sound-size and sound-shape mappings
Scientific 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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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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Source of Symbols Inspiration in Tahereh Safarzadeh’s Poetry [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2022 Symbolism was initiated by Nima Yushij, a contemporary poet. Symbolism sought to express the social and political problems of its age. Many poets were affected by his movement and Safarzadeh was not an exception.
Kativar Ziraksaz +3 more
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Analyzing the compatibility of symbolism with the two bases of the originality of existence and the originality of essence [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2021 Symbolism in the field of metaphysics is a method that has always been considered and widely used in various religious and mystical and philosophical schools, as well as traditional arts such as Iranian Islamic art.
ahmad reza honari
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Časopis pro Právní Vědu a Praxi, 2022 An article discusses the use of special characters in the fine art, through which the author conveys deeper meaning of these characters to the observer. Use of special characters in the fine art is called symbolism.
Klára Jelínková
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A Comparative Study of Social Symbolism in Nimayooshij’s & Mahdi Akhavansales’ Poetry After the 28th Mordad Coup D’etat In 1332 [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2017 The present study aimed at comparing the degree by which the main features of Social Symbolism are presented in the 1330s poems of two well-known poets of this stream, namely, Nimayooshij and Mahdi Akhavansales.
Farshad Moradi, Sayed Ahmad Parsa
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