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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sound symbolism"”.
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
Sound symbolism refers to the finding that individuals have biases to associate certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) with certain perceptual and/or semantic features (see Lockwood & Dingemanse, 2015; Sidhu & Pexman, 2018a). An example of this is the association between the phoneme /i/ (as in …
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Talking sense: The behavioural and neural correlates of sound symbolism
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The role of cognitive factors on the development and evolution of the vocabulary
… and non-arbitrariness (in the form of sound-symbolism) make significant contributions to the way that languages are learnt. Central to this point is that important considerations should be made as to when and how these two properties are considered beneficial. Principally, these …
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The submorphemic structure of Amharic: toward a phonosemantic analysis
… that there is no systematic relationship between sound and meaning until a certain number of sounds are combined and arbitrarily associated with certain meanings to form the basic meaningful units known as morphemes. The pervasiveness and success of this paradigm over the decades has apparently …