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Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience
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The bouba-kiki effect, or the symbolic association between certain speech sounds and rounded or angular
shapes, is widely thought to be universal. However, two studies have failed to replicate this effect with
neurotypical participants in the classical paradigm, one conducted in Papua New Guinea (Ross & Rogers, 1975),
and the other conducted in Nepal (Styles & Gawne, 2017). As both experiments employed auditory stimuli
inconsistent with the sound structure of the respective native language, Styles and Gawne (2017) proposed that
pseudoword legality is a prerequisite for sound-symbolic associations to form. In this study, we conducted the
first experimental test of this hypothesis, by assessing participants’ performance on the bouba-kiki task as a
function of pseudoword phonotactic legality. Our results indicate that phonotactic violations may disrupt the
bouba-kiki effect, albeit only when they cause the speech stimuli to be perceived as significantly strange (not
“word-like”). We thus conclude that sound symbolism fails whenever phonotactic violations prevent the
assemblance of the phonological representations of the target pseudowords.
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Sound symbolism Bouba-kiki effect Phonotactic legality Phonological representations European Portuguese Simbolismo sonoro Efeito bouba-kiki Legalidade fonotática Representações fonológicas Português Europeu
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Delgado, J., Pereira, R., Ferreira, M. F., Farinha-Fernandes, A., Guerreiro, J. C., Faustino, B., Domingues, M., & Ventura, P. (2020). Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience. RAPL -Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 7, 137–150. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9
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Associação Portuguesa de Linguística