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Recent behavioral evidence shows that the spatial concepts of front and back are sound symbolically tied to vowels that are pronounced either at the front or the back of the mouth, respectively. With such effects found from behavioral experiments, we examined whether such phenomenon could be found cross-linguistically from words pertaining to the concepts of front and back. The frequency counts of vowels of such words from 266 languages were extracted and analyzed. The analysis showed statistically significant differences in frequency counts of vowels between the back and front concepts. These findings suggest that the phenomenon of vowel articulation connecting to word meaning does have some cross-linguistic basis and hints at a common motor-sensory foundation for spatial sound symbolic effects.
Bidragets översatta titelSpatiaalinen äännesymbolismi: monikielinen tutkimus
Originalspråkengelska
Titel på värdpublikationProceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague 2023
RedaktörerRadek Skarnitzl, Jan Volín
Antal sidor5
Utgivningsdatumaug. 2023
Sidor2936-2940
Artikelnummer596
ISBN (elektroniskt)978-80-908114-2-3
StatusPublicerad - aug. 2023
MoE-publikationstypA4 Artikel i en konferenspublikation
Evenemang20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague 2023 - Prague, Tjeckien
Varaktighet: 7 aug. 202311 aug. 2023
Konferensnummer: 20

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