Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon: A Review of Iconic‐Systematicity.
Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while phonemes like /k/ are associated with spikiness. In this paper I review the accumulating evidence that...
| Publicado en: | Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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