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...
| Published in: | Language & Speech Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 247 - 267 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2015
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |