2000
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.617
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Abstract: Research employing three large lists of words rated along emotional dimensions (total N = 15,761 words) supported a prior claim that most phonemes have a distinct emotional character. Different phonemes tended to occur more often in different types of emotional words. When phonemes were grouped along eight radii in a two dimensional emotional space defined by Pleasantness and Activation (Pleasantness, Cheeriness, Activation, Nastiness, Unpleasantness, Sadness, Passivity, and Softness), it became possible to dr… Show more

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“…In her research on affective sound symbolism, Whissell (1999Whissell ( , 2000 examined English word sounds inductively and reached the conclusion that most of them were emotionally meaningful. She analyzed the sounds in several thousand words whose emotional meaning had been rated, and noted that different sounds appeared at inordinately high rates in different types of rated words.…”
Section: Quantifying the Employment Of Emotionally Loaded Sounds In Smentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In her research on affective sound symbolism, Whissell (1999Whissell ( , 2000 examined English word sounds inductively and reached the conclusion that most of them were emotionally meaningful. She analyzed the sounds in several thousand words whose emotional meaning had been rated, and noted that different sounds appeared at inordinately high rates in different types of rated words.…”
Section: Quantifying the Employment Of Emotionally Loaded Sounds In Smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The IPA symbols for these sounds, in order of mention, are ʃ, u, k, ɜr, r, d, t, p, ŋ, ɪ, and ɔɪ. Although Whissell's quantification of sound emotionality was a statistical one that rested entirely on the tendency of sounds to appear more often in certain types of emotional words, a post hoc analysis led to the conclusion that sounds in different emotional categories are also enunciated differently-they involve different facial and muscle actions (Whissell, 2000). For example, pronouncing the sh and oo of shook produces something of an angry facial expression while pronouncing the long e of at the end of lovely produces a smile (just as the long e in "cheese" does).…”
Section: Quantifying the Employment Of Emotionally Loaded Sounds In Smentioning
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“…42-50) focused on the tension of the larynx involved in the enunciation of phonemes. Whissell (2000) located the source of the emotional connotations of phonemes in the facial expressions characteristic of both emotional expression and phoneme enunciation. Different phonemes are associated with different facial expressions, some more smiling and relaxed than others.…”
Section: Sound and Emotionmentioning
confidence: 99%