Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William; Clark, William George; Wright, William Aldis

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511701252.003

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“…“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” [ 1 ]. In this famous quote from Romeo and Juliet, the eponymous heroine opines that the names of things don’t matter and don’t have any relationship to our appreciation or understanding of the thing itself.…”

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What’s in a Name? Sound Symbolism and Gender in First Names

Sidhu

Pexman

2015

PLoS ONE

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Although the arbitrariness of language has been considered one of its defining features, studies have demonstrated that certain phonemes tend to be associated with certain kinds of meaning. A well-known example is the Bouba/Kiki effect, in which nonwords like bouba are associated with round shapes while nonwords like kiki are associated with sharp shapes. These sound symbolic associations have thus far been limited to nonwords. Here we tested whether or not the Bouba/Kiki effect extends to existing lexical stimuli; in particular, real first names. We found that the roundness/sharpness of the phonemes in first names impacted whether the names were associated with round or sharp shapes in the form of character silhouettes (Experiments 1a and 1b). We also observed an association between femaleness and round shapes, and maleness and sharp shapes. We next investigated whether this association would extend to the features of language and found the proportion of round-sounding phonemes was related to name gender (Analysis of Category Norms). Finally, we investigated whether sound symbolic associations for first names would be observed for other abstract properties; in particular, personality traits (Experiment 2). We found that adjectives previously judged to be either descriptive of a figuratively ‘round’ or a ‘sharp’ personality were associated with names containing either round- or sharp-sounding phonemes, respectively. These results demonstrate that sound symbolic associations extend to existing lexical stimuli, providing a new example of non-arbitrary mappings between form and meaning.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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What’s in a Name? Sound Symbolism and Gender in First Names

Sidhu

Pexman

2015

PLoS ONE

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Section: Creating Speech From Text: Ari_spinmentioning

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“…The number of elements in the text needs to be equal to the number of images. Let us take a part of Mercutio's speech from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, 2003) and overlay it on two images from the Wikipedia page about Mercutio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercutio): shakespeare_result <-ari_spin( c(mercutio_file, mercutio_file2), speech, output = "romeo.mp4", voice = "Joanna" ) isTRUE(shakespeare_result)…”

Section: Creating Speech From Text: Ari_spinmentioning

confidence: 99%

ari: The Automated R Instructor

2020

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We present the ari package for automatically generating technology-focused educational videos. The goal of the package is to create reproducible videos, with the ability to change and update video content seamlessly. We present several examples of generating videos including using R Markdown slide decks, PowerPoint slides, or simple images as source material. We also discuss how ari can help instructors reach new audiences through programmatically translating materials into other languages.

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“…Romeo and Juliet 5 is a tragedy written by Shakespeare about two young “star-crossed lovers” whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays.…”

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confidence: 99%