{"pk":28608,"title":"Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence fromcross-linguistic ideophones","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Iconic words are known to exhibit an imitative relationshipbetween a word and its referent. Many studies have workedto pinpoint sound-to-meaning correspondences for ideophonesfrom different languages. The correspondence patterns showsimilarities across languages, but what makes such language-specific correspondences universal, as iconicity claims to be,remains unclear. This could be due to a lack of consensus onhow to describe and test the perceptuo-motor affordances thatmake an iconic word feel imitative to speakers. We created andanalyzed a database of 1,888 ideophones across 13 languages,and found that 5 articulatory properties, physiologically acces-sible to all spoken language users, pattern according to seman-tic features of ideophones. Our findings pave the way for futureresearch to utilize articulatory properties as a means to test andexplain how iconicity is encoded in spoken language.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"iconicity; ideophones; systematicity; sound sym-bolism; phonology; semantics"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kx4w43n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Arthur","middle_name":"Lewis","last_name":"Thompson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Nicolas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Collignon","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Youngah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Do","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28608/galley/18479/download/"}]}