{"pk":29571,"title":"Effects of Voiced Initial Consonants in Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words:Experiment 3","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have hypothesized that Japanese sound-symbolic words with voiced initial consonants (SSWV; e.g.,boroboro) rather than those with voiceless initial consonants (SSWVL; e.g., horohoro) or semi-voiced initial consonants(SSWSV; e.g., poroporo) induce stronger evaluations of the quality of psycholinguistic features. To investigate this hy-pothesis, we asked 36 Japanese participants to evaluate 13 psycholinguistic features (familiarity, visual imagery, auditoryimagery, haptic imagery, arousal, preference, disgust, hardness, softness, heaviness, lightness, fastness, and slowness) withSSWV, SSWVL, and SSWSV using 5-point semantic differential scales. All the initial consonants involved h (f; SSWVL),p (SSWSV), or b (SSWV). The experimental results showed that SSWV included higher levels of visual imagery, auditoryimagery, haptic imagery, arousal, disgust, hardness, and heaviness over SSWVL or SSWSV (ps ¡ .05). Taken together,these findings suggest that SSWV induces psychological and physical quality evaluations more than SSWVL and SSWSV.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bf257bv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eisuke","middle_name":"","last_name":"Osawa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Akari","middle_name":"","last_name":"Koda","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kyonosuke","middle_name":"","last_name":"Handa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Shushi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Namba","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Xinyi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Makoto","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hirakawa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Toshimune","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kambara","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29571/galley/19431/download/"}]}