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Another look at phonetic symbolism.
Insup Taylor,Maurice M. Taylor +1 more
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1965-12-01. It has received 63 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phonetics.read more
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The case for sound symbolism
TL;DR: A review of the most widely attested forms of sound symbolism and the research programs linked to sound symbolism that have influenced linguists and anthropologists most can be found in this paper.
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Implicit sound symbolism in lexical access: Evidence from an interference task
TL;DR: Two experiments are reported that replicate and extend Köhler's claims using an implicit interference task that allows for multiple measures per subject, and does not require subjects to make explicit decisions about the relation between visual form and meaning.
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Subjective confidence in one's answers: the consensuality principle.
TL;DR: The results argue against a direct-access view of confidence judgments and suggest that such judgments will be accurate only as long as people's responses are by and large correct across the sampled items, thus stressing the criticality of a representative design.
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The formation of visual stimulus equivalences in children.
TL;DR: Four normal children were presented with a series of matching-to-sample tasks, using five sets of visual stimuli designated A, B, C, D, and E, and three new equivalences were demonstrated: AB/BA, EB/BE, and DB/BD.
Vocal Tract Length Perception and the Evolution of Language
William Tecumseh,Sherman Fitch +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used computer-synthesized vowel sounds to show that human subjects use vocal tract length along with other cues to gauge the relative body size of a speaker, which may explain the long-noted phenomenon of " phonetic symbolism" for size in many languages.
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A study in phonetic symbolism.
TL;DR: In this paper it is shown that a significant portion of the symbolic content and structure of language is symbolic in a purely referential sense; in other words, the meaningful combinations of vowels and consonants derive their functional significance from the arbitrary associations between them and their meanings established by various societies in the course of a uncontrollably long period of historical development.