The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 157(4), P. 2636 - 2656

Published: April 1, 2025

Onomatopoeias like hiss and peep are iconic because their forms resemble meanings. Iconicity can also involve meanings in different modalities, such as when people match the nonce words bouba kiki to round angular objects, mil mal small large ones, known “sound symbolism.” This paper focuses on what specific analogies motivate correspondences spoken language: do associate shapes size with how phonemes sound (auditory), or they produced (articulatory)? Based a synthesis of empirical evidence probing cognitive mechanisms underlying types symbolism, this argues that based acoustics alone often sufficient, rendering extant articulatory explanations for many phenomena superfluous. further suggests crossmodal iconicity language fruitfully be understood an extension onomatopoeia: speakers iconically depict perceptual characteristics shape, mimic correlated these natural world.

Language: Английский

A cross-species framework for classifying sound-movement couplings

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 105911 - 105911

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Language: Английский