The sound of size revisited - New insights from a German-Hungarian comparative study on sound symbolism

Languages consistently display sound symbolic effects. In our study we expand size-related research to German and Hungarian, languages with both rounded unrounded high front vowels as well as/ø/, so that can separate the effect of lip rounding vowel backness. Our subjects had rate artificial words CVCVCV structure. For analysis used crossed random models in a way is novel this field. Results confirm previous findings: voiced consonants back are perceived be larger. Additionally, show increases size. • Cross-linguistic experiment on symbolism. Hungarian: Crossed effects stimuli-level subject-level Sound effects: voicing backness increase Lip size:/ø/was larger than/e/,/y/was than/i/.