Language and Synesthesia

Reichard, Gladys A.; Jakobson, Roman; Werth, Elizabeth

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“…One sign of this was their appearance in The Sound Shape of Language, a wide-ranging review of phonetics, phonology and sound symbolism by noted linguists Jakobson and Waugh (1979). They surveyed work on ideophones by Samarin, Diffloth, Westermann and Wescott, drawing instructive parallels to synaesthetic associations (Reichard, Jakobson & Werth 1949), verbal art, and poetic performance. As they noted, "Closer attention to the extent and display of the Lautsinn in these varied types of ideophones is a timely pursuit for the science of language" (Jakobson & Waugh 1979: 198).…”

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

112

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Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages. This paper surveys the research history of ideophones, from its roots in African linguistics to its fruits in general linguistics and typology around the globe. It shows that despite a recurrent narrative of marginalisation, work on ideophones has made an impact in many areas of linguistics, from theories of phonological features to typologies of manner and motion, and from sound symbolism to sensory language. Due to their hybrid nature as gradient vocal gestures that grow roots in discrete linguistic systems, ideophones provide opportunities to reframe typological questions, reconsider the role of language ideology in linguistic scholarship, and rethink the margins of language. With ideophones increasingly being brought into the fold of the language sciences, this review synthesises past theoretical insights and empirical findings in order to enable future work to build on them.

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

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“…lukt, smak, berl3ring, smerte) forekommer langt sjeldnere. Enkelte personer opplever bare en form for synestesi mens andre kan oppleve flere, noen ganger p~ samme tid (Collins, 1929;Cutsforth, 1925;Ginsberg, 1923;Luria, 1975;Marks, 1978;Reichard et al, 1949;Schultze, 1912;Titchener, 1909).…”

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Nordisk Psykologi

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“…The first three are cited by Jakobson (1968). The fourth and fifth are given in Reichard et al (1949), the sixth is a psychiatric patient reported by Ostwald (1973), and the seventh is the present author's subject. Table 2 summarizes the results of group surveys that were found in the literature.…”

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“…He concluded that The basis for synesthesia is an undifferentiated perceptual experience which permits the linking together of the separate realms of sense that is lacking or in abeyance in the highly differentiated and objectified forms of experience '. (1973:218) Several investigations have noted the greater occurrence of synesthetic experiences in children (Jakobson 1968;Reichard et al 1949). Studies also have suggested synesthesia to be correlated with mental disorders such as schizophrenia (Reichard et al 1949, Ostwald 1973.…”

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“…It must also be investigated whether the synesthetic subject, operationally defined as consistent in vowel-color associations, demonstrates some cross-case, cross-cultural consistency. Reichard et al (1949) note in their multilingual subject that: 'The color form and motion symbolism is nearly the same for sounds of all languages in which E. W. can make identifications ' (1949: 227). In a study on the vowel color associations of a group of young children, it was found that there was significant interference with the name of the color.…”

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Synesthesia: A principle for the relationship between the primary colors and the cardinal vowels

Ryalls¹

1986

Semiotica

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A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles. Baudelaire, Le sonnet des voyelles Toute personne percevant une couleur eprouve la meme sensation et apprehende la meme qualite de vecu. C'est pourquoi la sensation que provoque la couleur est un langage sensible comprehensible partous sans recours au vocabulaire: un langage visuel. Luscher, 'Les couleurs sont des sentiments visualises'Synesthesia is, in rough terms, the spillover from one sense modality into another. An intense experience in one sense modality, sight for example, can lead to an accompanying sensation in another modality, such as hearing. Synesthesia is simultaneously one of the most simple and the most complex articulations of signs. The simplest in that the signifier and the signified are the same, just shifted by a sense modality. The most complex in that the signifier and the signified are simultaneous. That is, we speak of a sound 'evoking' a certain color, the sound becomes a sign for that color, but actually the sound and the color occur simultaneously -the sound and the color are part of the same sensory experience. We immediately interpret our sensations, pushing apart the two sensory experiences temporally, to allow one to signify the other. We see the human need to filter experience by a system of signification, to map sensation onto a logical grid. In a certain sense most signs are synesthetic -for example, the sound of a word is a sign for a visual concept, the sound of the spoken sound 'bird' is a sign for the image of the bird flying above. Although separated by the sensory modalities of hearing and sight, the two concepts 'meet in the brain' so to speak. This dual nature of Synesthesia -at once simple and complex -is reflected in our associations of the synesthetic Semiotica 58-1/2 (1986), 107-121.

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Language and Synesthesia

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