Vowel-colour associations in non-synesthetes: a study with Spanish and Arabic participants
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The present paper aims at contributing to the field of sound symbolism and, more specifically, to the association between sounds and colours as established by nonsynesthetes. A study based on a forced-choice task performed by Spanish and Arabic speakers is presented. The study asks participants to listen to primary cardinal vowels and choose from a range of colours the one considered most suitable for the sound. The data gathered reinforce previous results that non-synesthetic participants are able to significantly associate vowel sounds and colours at a better than chance degree. However, results seem to go against the general idea that the associations are cross-linguistic, although the phenomenon itself seems to be.
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Non-random association between vowel sounds and colors.
It has been suggested that graphemes of similar sound tend to be associated with analogous synesthetic colors in grapheme-color synesthesia (Asano & Yokosawa, 2011; 2012; Shin & Kim, 2014). A work in our group also showed that graphemes sharing phonetic rules - i.e., the place and the manner of articulation - tend to induce similar synesthetic colors (Kang et al., ASSC 2014). In the present stu...
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