• In linguistics, sound symbolism is the perceptual similarity between speech sounds and concept meanings. It is a form of linguistic iconicity. For example...
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    are not always drawn: sound-symbolism may be referred to generally as onomatopoeia (though strictly this refers to imitative sounds, phonomimes); phonomimes...
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    Onomatopoeia (redirect from Sound words)
    Languish Japanese sound symbolism List of animal sounds List of onomatopoeias Sound mimesis in various cultures Sound symbolism Vocal learning Warblish...
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    investigated using fMRI in 2018. The bouba–kiki effect is one form of sound symbolism. This effect was first observed by Georgian psychologist Dimitri Uznadze...
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    motionless before him.' Ideasthesia Sound symbolism (phonosemantics) Synesthesia Reduplication Onomatopoeia Japanese sound symbolism Bouba/kiki effect Sasse, Hans-Jürgen...
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    Bauhaus Futurism Imagism Lettrism Neoplasticism De Stijl Orphism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Tonalism Literary arts Visual arts Performing arts Related...
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    commercial for Listerine mouthwash. Glossary of anime and manga Japanese sound symbolism Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kabedon. Ashcraft, Brian (4...
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    boundaries for the listener. There appears to be a great deal of remnant sound symbolism in the Yahgan lexicon. For example, many roots ending in -m encode...
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  • the study of "phonaesthesia" (i.e., sound symbolism and phonesthemes): that not just words but even certain sound combinations carry meaning. For example...
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  • offensive, inadvertently humorous, or highly charged Sound symbolism – the idea that vocal sounds or phonemes carry meaning by themselves Chaffee, Judith;...
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