The present study investigated whether sound symbolic properties correspond only to a specific meaning domain or to other semantic dimensions as well. Native ...
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The present research investigates sound-symbolism as a possible route to the learning of an unknown word's meaning. Three studies compared the guesses that ...
Prominently among these relations, we find property words (“small” and i, “full” and p or b) and body part terms (“tongue” and l, “nose” and n).
Listeners agreed more reliably on the English translation for matched relative to mismatched dimensions, though reliable cross-dimensional mappings did occur.
Feb 23, 2023 · This paper presents a cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism, analysing a six-language corpus of all Pokémon names available as of January 2022.
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Dec 29, 2016 · Previous research suggests that listeners are sensitive to sound symbolism. However, little is known about the specificity of these mappings.
Dec 29, 2016 · In three experiments, native English-speaking adults heard sound symbolic foreign words for dimensional adjective pairs (big/small, round/pointy ...
Sep 3, 2024 · ABSTRACT. Sound symbolism occurs when the sound of a word alone can convey its meaning, e.g. 'balloon' and 'spike' sound rounded and pointed ...
Listeners use cross-linguistic sound-to-meaning mappings to interpret foreign words. •. Increased activation for sound symbolic words in left superior parietal ...