Consonants are More Important than Vowels in the Bouba-kiki Effect.

Adult listeners systematically associate certain speech sounds with round or spiky shapes, a sound-symbolic phenomenon known as the “bouba-kiki effect.” In this study, we investigate the respective influences of consonants and vowels in this phenomenon. French participants were asked to match audito...

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Publicado en:Language & Speech Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 247 - 267
Autores principales: Fort, Mathilde, Martin, Alexander, Peperkamp, Sharon
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jun2015
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