When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter

• Main Authors: Styles, Suzy J., Gawne, Lauren
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Cross-cultural Perception; Cross-modal Congruence; Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105365; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49537; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517724807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same answer in a quiz: Which novel word form (‘maluma’ or ‘takete’) went best with which abstract line drawing (one curved, one angular). Others have consistently shown the effect in a variety of contexts, with only one...