Based on the existing research on sound symbolism and crossmodal correspondence, this study proposed an extended research on cross-modal correspondence between various sound attributes and color properties in a group of non-synesthetes. In Experiment 1, we assessed the associations between each property of sounds and colors. Twenty sounds with five auditory properties (pitch, roughness, sharpne...

Verbal sounds can be associated with specific meanings, a phenomenon called sound symbolism. Previous findings of symbolism have shown that words including consonants or vowels mouth shapes to pronounce associate and subjective physical emotional evaluations. The purpose this study was examine whether each written vowel in given language individually Six hundred thirteen participants used five-...

Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary use of speech sounds to convey meaning. For example, we tend to mark large objects with back vowels, e.g., /u/ in ”huge,” and small objects with front vowels, e.g., /i/ in ”tiny.” Previous research into sound symbolic naming has suggested that an object’s motion is considered when naming the object. We report results from two experiments in which participant...

The paper presents approaches to identifying realworld demographic attributes based on language use in the virtual world. We apply features developed from the classic literature on sociolinguistics and sound symbolism to data collected from virtual-world chat and avatar naming to determine participants’ age and gender. We also examine participants’ use of avatar names across virtual worlds and ...

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 co...