Cross-sensory correspondences and symbolism in spoken and written language
Lexical sound symbolism in language appears to exploit the feature associations embedded in cross-sensory rrespondences. For example, words incorporating relatively high acoustic frequencies (i.e., front/close rather than back/open vowels) are deemed more appropriate as names for concepts associated...
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American Psychological Association
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/536/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/536/1/Walker%20Peter%20Correspondences_Symbolism.pdf |