To call a cloud ‘cirrus’: sound symbolism in names for categories or items

The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple nounhierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned the make up of two categories of unfamiliar objects (‘alien life forms’),...

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Main Authors: Ković, Vanja, Sucević, Jelena, Styles, Suzy J.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83791
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42782
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English