Articulation contributes to valence sound symbolism.

Körner, Anita; Rummer, Ralf

doi:10.1037/xge0001124

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“…Whereas size sound symbolism seems driven by grounding (ecological associations between auditory and vowel frequencies), valence sound symbolism seems rather driven by embodiment. Specifically, the association between vowels and valence has been found to result from overlapping muscle activity for emotional facial expressions and motor activity during articulation (Körner & Rummer, 2021). Both smiling and the articulation of /i/ involve a retraction of the lip corners and this muscle overlap explains the association between positive valence and the vowel /i/.…”

Section: Iconicity In Spoken Languagesmentioning

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“…Both smiling and the articulation of /i/ involve a retraction of the lip corners and this muscle overlap explains the association between positive valence and the vowel /i/. In contrast, the articulation of vowels associated with negative affect frequently involves lip rounding, and this antagonistic muscles to the ones responsible for lip corner retraction (Körner & Rummer, 2021). Thus, valence sound symbolism can be explained as an embodied association, driven by the affective meaning of articulatory movements.…”

Section: Iconicity In Spoken Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the present article, this approach is exemplified in several sections: The studies on iconicity in both sign languages (e.g., Castillo, Fojo, & Aguirre, 2021) and spoken languages (e.g., Körner & Rummer, 2021) show how our language behavior in the form of the specific symbols we produce is grounded in sensorimotor experience. In addition, although the studies on natural language data presented here primarily focussed on how experiences can be de-coded from language (Günther, Petilli, et al, 2020;Lewis, Zettersten, & Lupyan, 2019;Rinaldi & Marelli, 2020a, 2020b, this is only possible because these experiences have been en-coded into language by other speakers in the first place.…”

Section: Language As Independent and As Dependent Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

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Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper

Körner¹,

Castillo²,

Drijvers³

et al. 2023

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Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across six linguistic levels of granularity. We examine (a) sub-word features, discussing grounded influences on iconicity (systematic associations between word form and meaning); (b) words, discussing boundary conditions and generalizations for the simulation of color, sensory modality, and spatial position; (c) sentences, discussing boundary conditions and applications of action direction simulation; (d) texts, discussing how the teaching of simulation can improve comprehension in beginning readers; (e) conversations, discussing how multi-modal cues improve turn taking and alignment; and (f) text corpora, discussing how distributional semantic models can reveal how grounded and embodied knowledge is encoded in texts. These approaches are converging on a convincing account of the psychology of language, but at the same time, there are important criticisms of the embodied approach and of specific experimental paradigms. The surest way forward requires the adoption of a wide array of scientific methods. By providing complimentary evidence, a combination of multiple methods on various levels of granularity can help us gain a more complete understanding of the role of embodiment and grounding in language processing.

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Section: Iconicity In Spoken Languagesmentioning

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Section: Iconicity In Spoken Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Language As Independent and As Dependent Variablementioning

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Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper

Körner¹,

Castillo²,

Drijvers³

et al. 2023

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“…Yet, some word-object associations are more readily explained based on articulatory phoneme properties (i.e. positive vs. negative valence: Körner & Rummer, 2021), while others are more readily explained based on acoustic properties (i.e. sound-to-color: Kawahara, 2021).…”

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In the ear of the viewer: Toward an auditory dominance in early word learning

Havy

2023

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In everyday life, children hear but also often see their caregiver talking. Children build on this correspondence to resolve auditory uncertainties and decipher words from the speech input. As they hear the name of an object, 18- to 30-month-olds form a representation that permits word recognition in either the auditory (i.e. acoustic form of the word with no accompanying face) or the visual modality (i.e. seeing a silent talking face). Continuing on this work, we ask whether this ability already exists at a younger age. Using a cross-modal word learning task, French-learning 14-month-old infants were taught novel word–object mappings. During learning, they experienced the words auditorily. At test, they experienced the words either in the auditory or the visual modality. Results revealed successful word recognition in the auditory modality only. This suggests that as opposed to older children, 14-month-old infants only interpret novel auditorily learned words auditorily. This finding is discussed in line with the perceptual and lexical achievements that may influence infants’ capacity to navigate from the auditory to the visual modality during word learning.

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“…Sound-symbolic uses of speech segments and voice dynamic features have been explored theoretically in numerous works in linguistic literature. The following research works are highlighted here for their pioneering contributions (Köhler, 1929;Sapir, 1929;Léon, 1933), their proposals on the relevance of the communicative basis of sound (Jakobson and Waugh, 1979;Fónagy, 1983Fónagy, , 2001Tsur, 1992;Poyatos, 1993;Hinton et al, 1994), or the contemporaneity of their interpretation of the sound-meaning interactions (Nobile, 2019;Körner and Rummer, 2022).…”

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Multimodal impressions of voice quality settings: the role of vocal and visual symbolism

Madureira¹,

Fontes²

2023

Front. Commun.

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This study considers instances of voice quality settings under a sound-symbolic and synesthetic perspective, focusing on the auditory impressions these settings might have on listeners' attributions of meaning effects and associations between vocal and visual features related to emotional expression. Three perceptual experiments are carried out. The first experiment examined the impressionistic effects of eight voice quality settings characterized by differences in pitch. The second experiment examined the impressionistic effects of seven voice quality settings characterized by productions with the presence or absence of turbulent airflow, irregularity, and tenseness. The third experiment investigated associations between facial expressions of basic emotions and voice quality characteristics. Data are considered in terms of acoustic (fundamental frequency values), articulatory (reduced or expanded length of the vocal tract), perceptual impressions of size (big/small), strength (strong/weak), brightness (dark, clear), and distinctiveness (muffled/distinct), and visual features (facial expressions of the basic emotions sadness, happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and neutrality). The results provide corroborating evidence of existing links between sound and meaning and are discussed in relation to the frequency, production, sirenic biological codes, phonetic metaphors, and the vocal and facial gestures involved in emotional expression.

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Articulation contributes to valence sound symbolism.

Cited by 15 publications

References 57 publications

Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper

Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper

In the ear of the viewer: Toward an auditory dominance in early word learning

Multimodal impressions of voice quality settings: the role of vocal and visual symbolism

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