Rising tones and rustling noises: Metaphors in gestural depictions of sounds.

ABSTRACT: Communicating an auditory experience with words is a difficult task and, in consequence, people often rely on imitative non-verbal vocalizations and gestures. This work explored the combination of such vocalizations and gestures to communicate auditory sensations and representations elicited by non-vocal everyday sounds. Whereas our previous studies have analyzed vocal imitations, the present research focused on gestural depictions of sounds. To this end, two studies investigated the combination of gestures and non-verbal vocalizations. A first, observational study examined a set of vocal and gestural imitations of recordings of sounds representative of a typical everyday environment (ecological sounds) with manual annotations. A second, experimental study used non-ecological sounds whose

SUBMITTER: Lemaitre G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547699 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature