Cross-modal correspondences in sine wave: Speech versus non-speech modes

Silva, Daniel Márcio Rodrigues; Bellini-Leite, Samuel C.

doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01835-z

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“…Particularly telling in this context is a study by Silva and Bellini-Leite (2019), who demonstrate that we observe similar sound symbolic effects when listeners are presented with sine-wave analogues of taketeand maluma-like speech. For such non-speech analogues, there are no articulatory actions that listeners can recover from the stimuli.…”

Section: Articulatory Explanationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Phonetic bases of sound symbolism: A review

Kawahara¹

2021

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While the relationships between sounds and meanings are generally arbitrary in human languages, we do observe cases in which systematic correspondences hold between sounds and meanings, at least as stochastic tendencies. When such systematic sound-meaning relationships appear to be modulated by iconicity, we refer to these relationships as ``sound symbolism,'' although defining precisely what it means for a sound to be iconic of its meaning can be difficult. Nevertheless, in many cases, systematic associations between particular meanings and particular sounds seem to make phonetic sense, i.e., sound symbolic meanings appear to have their roots in the articulatory and/or acoustic properties of sounds under question. This paper reviews these sound symbolic patterns together with their phonetic underpinnings, both in terms of their articulatory and acoustic characteristics. While the aim of this review is not to establish a new theory of sound symbolism, two conclusions nevertheless emerge from the survey: (1) phonetic and phonological considerations do seem to offer insights into the patterning of systematic sound-meaning correspondences that are recurrently found in natural languages and (2) we need to take both articulatory and acoustics factors into account when we consider the phonetic bases of sound symbolism. It is hoped that this review can serve as a useful guide for all researchers who work on sound symbolism.

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Section: Articulatory Explanationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Phonetic bases of sound symbolism: A review

Kawahara¹

2021

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“… Sidhu and Pexman (2018) have provided a comprehensive review of potential sound symbolism mechanisms proposing that there is such wide variability of sound symbolism phenomena that many different sound symbolism effects can be based on different mechanisms, and correspondingly a specific sound symbolism effect can be based on more than one mechanism. As an example, although lip rounding might map rounded vowels with round-edged shapes in the bouba-kiki effect , it has been also shown that participants associate sine-wave versions of the pseudowords maluma and taketa with round and sharp-edged shapes, respectively ( Silva and Bellini-Leite, 2020 ), suggesting that purely acoustic properties of these words can provide characteristics that enable linking them to particular shapes. Similarly, the acoustic and articulatory accounts of the sound-magnitude effect are not mutually exclusive, and it is possible that both of them are valid.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sound-Action Symbolism

Vainio

2021

Front. Psychol.

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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. The current review article presents a variety of such sound-action effects and proposes that they compose a category of sound symbolism that is based on grounding a conceptual knowledge of a referent in articulatory and manual action representations. In addition, the article proposes that even some widely known sound symbolism phenomena such as the sound-magnitude symbolism can be partially based on similar sensorimotor grounding. It is also discussed that meaning of suprasegmental speech elements in many instances is similarly grounded in body actions. Sound symbolism, prosody, and body gestures might originate from the same embodied mechanisms that enable a vivid and iconic expression of a meaning of a referent to the recipient.

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“…Stemming largely from its theoretical importance to questions of language evolution, the bouba/kiki effect has been replicated and extended numerous times in wide-ranging experiments, serving as a testbed for understanding the psychology of crossmodal correspondence in communication [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Moreover, while experiments using pseudowords have often been criticized for having limited relevance to spoken language vocabularies [56][57][58], recent evidence shows that the effect may actually influence the vocabularies of modern languages.…”

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The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

Ćwiek

Fuchs

Draxler

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual properties with potentially deep implications for the evolution of spoken language. However, there is debate over the robustness of the effect across cultures and the influence of orthography. We report an online experiment that tested the bouba/kiki effect across speakers of 25 languages representing nine language families and 10 writing systems. Overall, we found strong evidence for the effect across languages, with bouba eliciting more congruent responses than kiki . Participants who spoke languages with Roman scripts were only marginally more likely to show the effect, and analysis of the orthographic shape of the words in different scripts showed that the effect was no stronger for scripts that use rounder forms for bouba and spikier forms for kiki . These results confirm that the bouba/kiki phenomenon is rooted in crossmodal correspondence between aspects of the voice and visual shape, largely independent of orthography. They provide the strongest demonstration to date that the bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part II)’.

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Cross-modal correspondences in sine wave: Speech versus non-speech modes

Cited by 10 publications

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Phonetic bases of sound symbolism: A review

Phonetic bases of sound symbolism: A review

Sound-Action Symbolism

The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

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