TY - GEN
T1 - Cross-Linguistically Shared and Language-Specific Sound Symbolism for Motion
T2 - 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013
AU - Saji, Noburo
AU - Akita, Kimi
AU - Imai, Mutsumi
AU - Kantartzis, Katerina
AU - Kita, Sotaro
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We are grateful to Shigeto Kawahara for his insightful and helpful comments from the perspective of phonetics and phonology. We also thank Farzana Bhaiyat, Alicia Griffiths, Junko Kanero, and Yayoi Tajima, who participated in the current project as annotators. Remaining inadequacies are ours. This research was supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI to Saji (#232913), Akita (#24720179), Imai (#15300088, #22243043, #23120003), and Biological Sciences Research Council’[curly apostrophe]s Research Development Fellowship [BB/G023069/1] to Kita..
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper demonstrates a new quantitative approach to identify what is behind universally sensed sound symbolism and sound symbolism detected only by speakers of a particular language. We presented 70 locomotion videos to Japanese and English speakers and asked them to create a word that would sound-symbolically match each action, then to rate the action on five semantic dimensions. Multivariate analyses revealed that certain sound-meaning links (e.g., voicing and speed) were more consistent than others within and across languages. Language-specific sound symbolism was also found for some sound-meaning links (e.g., the affricate manner of articulation was associated with light motions in Japanese, but with heavy motions in English). This implies that cross-linguistically shared and language-specific parts of sound symbolism are intricately intertwined within each language. This research underscores the importance of a bottom-up approach which can exploratorily investigate the complex sound-symbolic systems as a whole.
AB - This paper demonstrates a new quantitative approach to identify what is behind universally sensed sound symbolism and sound symbolism detected only by speakers of a particular language. We presented 70 locomotion videos to Japanese and English speakers and asked them to create a word that would sound-symbolically match each action, then to rate the action on five semantic dimensions. Multivariate analyses revealed that certain sound-meaning links (e.g., voicing and speed) were more consistent than others within and across languages. Language-specific sound symbolism was also found for some sound-meaning links (e.g., the affricate manner of articulation was associated with light motions in Japanese, but with heavy motions in English). This implies that cross-linguistically shared and language-specific parts of sound symbolism are intricately intertwined within each language. This research underscores the importance of a bottom-up approach which can exploratorily investigate the complex sound-symbolic systems as a whole.
KW - canonical correlation analysis
KW - mimetics
KW - sound symbolism
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083421532
T3 - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013
SP - 1253
EP - 1258
BT - Cooperative Minds
A2 - Knauff, Markus
A2 - Sebanz, Natalie
A2 - Pauen, Michael
A2 - Wachsmuth, Ipke
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 31 July 2013 through 3 August 2013
ER -