{"pk":26370,"title":"Synthesized size-sound sound symbolism","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Studies of sound symbolism have shown that people can\nassociate sound and meaning in consistent ways when\npresented with maximally contrastive stimulus pairs of\nnonwords such as bouba/kiki (rounded/sharp) or mil/mal\n(small/big). Recent work has shown the effect extends to\nantonymic words from natural languages and has proposed a\nrole for shared cross-modal correspondences in biasing form-\nto-meaning associations. An important open question is how\nthe associations work, and particularly what the role is of\nsound-symbolic matches versus mismatches. We report on a\nlearning task designed to distinguish between three existing\ntheories by using a spectrum of sound-symbolically matching,\nmismatching, and neutral (neither matching nor mismatching)\nstimuli. Synthesized stimuli allow us to control for prosody,\nand the inclusion of a neutral condition allows a direct test of\ncompeting accounts. We find evidence for a sound-symbolic\nmatch boost, but not for a mismatch difficulty compared to\nthe neutral condition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"sound symbolism; iconicity; ideophones; cross-\nmodal correspondences; language"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hm5x4dd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gwilym","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lockwood","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","department":""},{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hagoort","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","department":""},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dingemanse","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26370/galley/16006/download/"}]}