Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance.

ABSTRACT: The concept of sound iconicity implies that phonemes are intrinsically associated with non-acoustic phenomena, such as emotional expression, object size or shape, or other perceptual features. In this respect, sound iconicity is related to other forms of cross-modal associations in which stimuli from different sensory modalities are associated with each other due to the implicitly perceived correspondence of their primal features. One prominent example is the association between vowels, categorized according to their place of articulation, and size, with back vowels being associated with bigness and front vowels with smallness. However, to date the relative influence of perceptual and conceptual cognitive processing on this association is not clear. To bridge this gap, three experiments we

SUBMITTER: Auracher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665516 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature