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Phonemes as images

Luca Nobile

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This paper attempts to improve the understanding of shape-sound symbolism by isolating the phonological features of the pseudo-words used in the experiments and the graphic features of the figures matched with them. In a first section, it analyses the classic maluma-takete effect from both an articulatory and acoustical point of view, showing that it is determined by several phonological features operating simultaneously. In a second section, two new experiments are presented to isolate, first, vowels and consonants and, second, the consonant features of [voicing], [manner of articulation], [nasality] and [place of articulation] in relation to the graphic features of {acuity}, {continuity}, {curvature}, {regularity}, and {density}. The main result is that each phonological feature shows a different pattern of correlations with the graphic features, determined by its subtle phono-articulatory and phono-acoustic structure.
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hal-01298582 , version 1 (12-09-2016)

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Luca Nobile. Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism applied to the distinctive features of French. Higara, Masako K. and Herlofsky, William J. and Shinohara, Kazuko and Akita, Kimi. Iconicity: east meets west, 14, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.71--91, 2015, Iconicity in language and literature (ISSN 1873-5037), 978-90-272-4350-8. ⟨10.1075/ill.14.04nob⟩. ⟨hal-01298582⟩
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