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    "pk": 25478,
    "title": "The Sound of Valence: Phonological Features Predict Word Meaning",
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    "abstract": "Various studies have recently shown that the long-held claim that\nthe relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is\narbitrary needs to be revisited. In two computational studies we\ninvestigated whether word valence can be derived from sound\nfeatures in English, Dutch and German. In Study 1, we identified\nthe extent to which individual phonological features explained\nvalence scores per language separately. In Study 2, we aimed to\ndetermine the optimal combination of cues that can predict valence\nscores across the three languages using two statistical classifiers\nand four machine learning classifiers. Our results showed that\nfrequency and word complexity were the most reliable shared cues\nto predict valence for all three languages, obtaining a correct\nvalence classification of about 60%. This percentage could be\nenhanced for individual or pairs of languages using additional\nrelevant cues. These findings demonstrated that the claim that the\nrelation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary is\ntoo strong.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "arbitrariness; sound-meaning; phonology; symbol\ngrounding."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m2985d8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Karlijn",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dinnissen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Max",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Louwerse",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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