Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience
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Resumo: | The bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975), and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed auditory stimuli inconsistent with the sound structure of the respective native language, Styles and Gawne (2017) proposed that pseudoword legality is a prerequisite for sound-symbolic associations to form. In this study, we conducted the first experimental test of this hypothesis, by assessing participants’ performance on the bouba-kiki task as a function of pseudoword phonotactic legality. Our results indicate that phonotactic violations may disrupt the bouba-kiki effect, albeit only when they cause the speech stimuli to be perceived as significantly strange (not “word-like”). We thus conclude that sound symbolism fails whenever phonotactic violations prevent the assemblance of the phonological representations of the target pseudowords. |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experienceO simbolismo sonoro é modulado pela experiência linguísticaSound symbolismBouba-kiki effectPhonotactic legalityPhonological representationsEuropean PortugueseSimbolismo sonoroEfeito bouba-kikiLegalidade fonotáticaRepresentações fonológicasPortuguês EuropeuThe bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975), and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed auditory stimuli inconsistent with the sound structure of the respective native language, Styles and Gawne (2017) proposed that pseudoword legality is a prerequisite for sound-symbolic associations to form. In this study, we conducted the first experimental test of this hypothesis, by assessing participants’ performance on the bouba-kiki task as a function of pseudoword phonotactic legality. Our results indicate that phonotactic violations may disrupt the bouba-kiki effect, albeit only when they cause the speech stimuli to be perceived as significantly strange (not “word-like”). We thus conclude that sound symbolism fails whenever phonotactic violations prevent the assemblance of the phonological representations of the target pseudowords.Associação Portuguesa de LinguísticaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaDelgado, JoãoPereira, RodrigoFerreira, Miguel F.Farinha-Fernandes, AntónioGuerreiro, José CarlosFaustino, BrunoDomingues, MiguelVentura, Paulo2024-03-08T11:23:37Z2020-11-302024-02-05T11:10:09Z2020-11-30T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/63296engDelgado, J., Pereira, R., Ferreira, M. F., Farinha-Fernandes, A., Guerreiro, J. C., Faustino, B., Domingues, M., & Ventura, P. (2020). Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience. RAPL -Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 7, 137–150. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a92183-9077cv-prod-348302910.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9metadata only accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T01:19:15Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/63296Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:14:26.037876Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience O simbolismo sonoro é modulado pela experiência linguística |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience Delgado, João Sound symbolism Bouba-kiki effect Phonotactic legality Phonological representations European Portuguese Simbolismo sonoro Efeito bouba-kiki Legalidade fonotática Representações fonológicas Português Europeu |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience |
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Delgado, João |
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Delgado, João Pereira, Rodrigo Ferreira, Miguel F. Farinha-Fernandes, António Guerreiro, José Carlos Faustino, Bruno Domingues, Miguel Ventura, Paulo |
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Pereira, Rodrigo Ferreira, Miguel F. Farinha-Fernandes, António Guerreiro, José Carlos Faustino, Bruno Domingues, Miguel Ventura, Paulo |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Delgado, João Pereira, Rodrigo Ferreira, Miguel F. Farinha-Fernandes, António Guerreiro, José Carlos Faustino, Bruno Domingues, Miguel Ventura, Paulo |
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Sound symbolism Bouba-kiki effect Phonotactic legality Phonological representations European Portuguese Simbolismo sonoro Efeito bouba-kiki Legalidade fonotática Representações fonológicas Português Europeu |
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Sound symbolism Bouba-kiki effect Phonotactic legality Phonological representations European Portuguese Simbolismo sonoro Efeito bouba-kiki Legalidade fonotática Representações fonológicas Português Europeu |
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The bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975), and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed auditory stimuli inconsistent with the sound structure of the respective native language, Styles and Gawne (2017) proposed that pseudoword legality is a prerequisite for sound-symbolic associations to form. In this study, we conducted the first experimental test of this hypothesis, by assessing participants’ performance on the bouba-kiki task as a function of pseudoword phonotactic legality. Our results indicate that phonotactic violations may disrupt the bouba-kiki effect, albeit only when they cause the speech stimuli to be perceived as significantly strange (not “word-like”). We thus conclude that sound symbolism fails whenever phonotactic violations prevent the assemblance of the phonological representations of the target pseudowords. |
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Delgado, J., Pereira, R., Ferreira, M. F., Farinha-Fernandes, A., Guerreiro, J. C., Faustino, B., Domingues, M., & Ventura, P. (2020). Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience. RAPL -Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 7, 137–150. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9 2183-9077 cv-prod-3483029 10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9 |
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