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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 Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of ...
Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
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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 Knöferle +2 more
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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 facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe evolution of human communication likely centred, in part, on shared intuitions about the mapping of sound to meaning. These sound-meaning intuitions, known as sound symbolism, can be seen for example in the bouba-kiki effect, where nonsense words ...
A. T. Korzeniowska +3 more
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The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features
Linguistic Typology, 2020 Sound symbolism emerged as a prevalent component in the origin and development of language. However, as previous studies have either been lacking in scope or in phonetic granularity, the present study investigates the phonetic and semantic features ...
Niklas Erben Johansson +2 more
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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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ADVISE: Symbolism and External Knowledge for Decoding Advertisements [PDF]
European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018 In order to convey the most content in their limited space, advertisements embed references to outside knowledge via symbolism. For example, a motorcycle stands for adventure (a positive property the ad wants associated with the product being sold), and ...
A Kembhavi +10 more
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The formation of the Freudian universal symbol: a historical perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis paper emphasizes the significance of the Freudian universal symbol by examining the controversial period from 1909 to 1917, when psychoanalysts increasingly turn their attention to cultural elements such as myth and language.
Chuansong Huo, Chuansong Huo, Fei Ju
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism—from infants to adults, and from Sapir’s foundational studies to twenty-first century product naming.
Mark Dingemanse
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