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  Synthesized size-sound sound symbolism

Lockwood, G., Hagoort, P., & Dingemanse, M. (2016). Synthesized size-sound sound symbolism. Talk presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2016). Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2016-08-10 - 2016-08-13.

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Lockwood, Gwilym1, 2, Author           
Hagoort, Peter1, Author           
Dingemanse, Mark3, Author           
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1Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792551              
2International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_1119545              
3Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              

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 Abstract: Studies of sound symbolism have shown that people can associate sound and meaning in consistent ways when presented with maximally contrastive stimulus pairs of nonwords such as bouba/kiki (rounded/sharp) or mil/mal (small/big). Recent work has shown the effect extends to antonymic words from natural languages and has proposed a role for shared cross-modal correspondences in biasing form-to-meaning associations. An important open question is how the associations work, and particularly what the role is of sound-symbolic matches versus mismatches. We report on a learning task designed to distinguish between three existing theories by using a spectrum of sound-symbolically matching, mismatching, and neutral (neither matching nor mismatching) stimuli. Synthesized stimuli allow us to control for prosody, and the inclusion of a neutral condition allows a direct test of competing accounts. We find evidence for a sound-symbolic match boost, but not for a mismatch difficulty compared to the neutral condition.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2016
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Title: the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2016)
Place of Event: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Start-/End Date: 2016-08-10 - 2016-08-13

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