ArticlePloS one2019
Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English.
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- Atypical Tactile Expressions Using Japanese Ideophones in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Names with /i/ Suit Positive Faces: The Naming Paradigm.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents.Cognitive science · 2024Article
- Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Neural Basis Of Sound-Symbolic Pseudoword-Shape Correspondences.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Vowel Length Expands Perceptual and Emotional Evaluations in Written Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Phonation Types Matter in Sound Symbolism.Cognitive science · 2021Article
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This paper demonstrates a new quantitative approach to examine cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in languages. Unlike most previous studies taking a hypothesis-testing approach, we employed a data mining approach to uncover unknown sound-symbolic correspondences in the domain of locomotion, without limiting ourselves to pre-determined sound-meaning correspondences. In the experiment, we presented 70 locomotion videos to Japanese and English speakers and asked them to create a sound symbolically matching word for each action. Participants also rated each action on five meaning variables. Multivariate analyses revealed cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound-meaning correspondences within a single semantic domain. The present research also established that a substantial number of sound-symbolic links emerge from conventionalized form-meaning mappings in the native languages of the speakers.
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