Phonosemantic shape-sound correlates
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0006/000368Keywords:
labial phonotype, psycholinguistics, shape-sound correlate, sound symbolismAbstract
This paper focuses on the study of sound symbolism and presents the results of two complementary psycholinguistic experiments carried out with 360 male and female Russian native speakers. The data were analysed by statistical methods of experimental data processing, with a relatively large final sample size (n ≥30) and prove the existence of an unambiguous phonosemantic correlation between the rounded shape of an object and the labial phonotype. The obtained results are strikingly consistent with those of a previously conducted structural analysis of the corpus of 95 Russian words denoting ‘roundness’.
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