{"pk":29966,"title":"Effects of Voiced Initial Consonants in Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words:Experiments 1 and 2","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Theoretical linguists have hypothesized that the vocalization of the initial consonants in Japanese sound-symbolic wordsaffect their psychological evaluations. By using 5-point semantic differential scales associated with 13 psycholinguis-tic features (familiarity, visual imagery, auditory imagery, haptic imagery, arousal, preference, disgust, hardness, soft-ness, heaviness, lightness, fastness, and slowness), we asked 36 Japanese participants to evaluate sound-symbolic wordswith voiceless (SSWVL; e.g., kirakira) or voiced initial consonants (SSWV; e.g., giragira) in experiment 1, whereas weasked them to evaluate sound-symbolic words with semi-voiced consonants (SSWSV; e.g., pochapocha) or SSWV (e.g.,bochabocha) in experiment 2. Results of experiments 1 and 2 showed that the participants had higher levels of disgust,arousal, hardness, heaviness, and slowness for SSWV as opposed to SSWVL and SSWSV (ps ¡ .05). In sum, these find-ings suggest that the presence of vocalization of initial consonants in Japanese sound-symbolic words contribute to theirpsychological evaluations to sound-symbolic words.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75x1t89s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Akari","middle_name":"","last_name":"Koda","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Eisuke","middle_name":"","last_name":"Osawa","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":"Yutaka","middle_name":"","last_name":"Haramaki","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/29966/galley/19820/download/"}]}