Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently

• Main Authors: Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Cross-modal Correspondence; Sound Symbolism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85188; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45139
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Studies investigating cross-modal correspondences between auditory pitch and visual shapes have shown children and adults consistently match high pitch to pointy shapes and low pitch to curvy shapes, yet no studies have investigated linguistic-uses of pitch. In the present study, we used a bouba/kik...