<i>Introduction</i>: Sound-symbolic processes

Hinton, Leanne; Nichols, Johanna; Ohala, John J.

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“…The most recent and comprehensive investigation into the symbolic nature of sounds is that by Hinton et al (2006), who published an edited collection presenting recent cross-disciplinary findings in the field depicted from different perspectives, e.g. linguistic, anthropological, biological and literary.…”

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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition

Wrembel

2010

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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e. non-arbitrary representations of a phoneme by specific semantic criteria. Secondly, the results of a preliminary study on different manifestations of sound symbolism including emotionally-loaded representations of phonemes and other synaesthetic associations shall be discussed. Finally, practical pedagogical implications of sound symbolism will be explored and a number of innovative classroom activities involving sound symbolic associations will be presented.

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“…Thus, we exclude associations deriving from patterns of phoneme use in language (i.e., conventional sound symbolism; Hinton, Nichols, & Ohala, 1994) from our definition. We also exclude associations deriving from direct imitations of sound (i.e., imitative sound symbolism; Hinton et al, 1994). 2 We exclude these associations because, like Hinton et al, we think they are distinct categories and that they do not necessarily share underlying mechanisms with the phenomenon we seek to explain.…”

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“…These two uses are not in opposition; sound symbolic words are those whose component phonemes have a sound symbolic relationship with their meanings. 2 Note that Hinton et al (1994) used the terms conventional and imitative sound symbolism to refer to sound symbolism at the word level. Rendall, 2011).…”

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“…Such proposals are typically presented as an explanation for a distinct subset of sound symbolism, and not as an explanation for sound symbolism as a whole (e.g., Hinton et al, 1994). Indeed, our operational definition would consider associations arising in this manner to be a separate phenomenon altogether.…”

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Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (e.g., objects of a certain size or shape). Some of the best-known examples include the mil/mal effect (Sapir, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12, 225-239, 1929) and the maluma/takete effect (Köhler, 1929). Interest in this topic has been on the rise within psychology, and studies have demonstrated that sound symbolic effects are relevant for many facets of cognition, including language, action, memory, and categorization. Sound symbolism also provides a mechanism by which words' forms can have nonarbitrary, iconic relationships with their meanings. Although various proposals have been put forth for how phonetic features (both acoustic and articulatory) come to be associated with stimuli, there is as yet no generally agreed-upon explanation. We review five proposals: statistical co-occurrence between phonetic features and associated stimuli in the environment, a shared property among phonetic features and stimuli; neural factors; species-general, evolved associations; and patterns extracted from language. We identify a number of outstanding questions that need to be addressed on this topic and suggest next steps for the field.

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