The article discusses the use of linguistic harmony in traditional culture as a means symbolisation. In folklore texts, phonetic similarity words heightens semantic connections between them. This happens when homonyms, paronyms, and other similar-sounding text along with anagrammatic coding meaning (for example, riddles) merge, combining two one hybrid word paronymous both them; by strengthenin...

Perceptual experiences in one modality are often dependent on activity from other sensory modalities. These cross-modal correspondences are also evident in language. Adults and toddlers spontaneously and consistently map particular words (e.g., 'kiki') to particular shapes (e.g., angular shapes). However, the origins of these systematic mappings are unknown. Because adults and toddlers have had...

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of Shigeto Kawahara’s phonetics teaching method. A senior high school class from liceo scientifico in Scandicci (Florence) was involved small language awareness program. The students were taught about basic concepts concerning sound symbolism and social meaning through two lessons differing modality presentation, i.e., “standard” lesson vs. containi...