“…Compared to other areas of research on sound iconicity, the results from these studies provide a fairly ambiguous picture. Whereas a majority of the studies have reported significant relations between the emotional tone of texts and the relative occurrence of certain phonemes (Aryani, Conrad, & Jacobs, 2013; Auracher, Albers, Zhai, Gareeva, & Stavniychuk, 2010; Auracher, Scharinger, & Menninghaus, 2019; Fónagy, 1961; Whissell, 1999, 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018), other studies have found no such relations (Kraxenberger & Menninghaus, 2016; Miall, 2001). What is more, the results of the studies that did find significant sound‐iconic relations vary greatly and even seem to partially contradict each other (Tsur & Gafni, 2020).…”