Linguistic sound symbolism and reading development : sound-shape matching and predictors of reading in multilingual Singapore

• Main Author: Woon, Fei Ting
• Other Authors: Suzy Styles
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language acquisition; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73469
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The evidence of sound-symbolism (sounds are linked systematically with other forms or referents) is well-attested with the bouba-kiki paradigm. Adults reportedly prefer matching sounds like voiceless consonants and high front vowels like /t, k, i, e/ with spiky shapes and voiced consonants and low b...