Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages

By Damián E. Blasi, Søren Wichmann, Harald Hammarström, Peter F. Stadler, Morten H. Christiansen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016

473 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Weighing up the evidence for sound symbolism: Distributional properties predict cue strength (2017, background): “…pairs, proof that there are indeed ‘small local consistencies in the fractionated chaos of local form-meaning correspondences’ that could seed the growth of form-meaning systematicities (see also Blasi et al., 2016; Monaghan, Shillcock, Christiansen, & Kirby, 2014; Perry, Perlman, & Lupyan, 2015).”
• Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. (2022, unknown): “Speech sounds and phonetic features sometimes elicit specific percepts and meanings across languages [13,14], as demonstrated by the well-known preference across languages for associating the labels bouba and kiki with round and spiky shapes, respectively [15].”