What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism?
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What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism?
Sound symbolism is a property of certain words which have a direct link between their phonological form and their semantic meaning. In certain instances, sound symbolism can allow non-native speakers to understand the meanings of etymologically unfamiliar foreign words, although the mechanisms driving this are not well understood. We examined whether sound symbolism might be mediated by the sam...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.013