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Conference Paper: Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones
Title | Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Iconicity Ideophones Systematicity Sound symbolism Phonology |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Cognitive Science Society. |
Citation | Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019): Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 24-27 July 2019, p. 1104-1110 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Iconic words are known to exhibit an imitative relationship between a word and its referent. Many studies have worked to pinpoint sound-to-meaning correspondences for ideophones from different languages. The correspondence patterns show similarities across language, but what makes such language-specific correspondences universal, as iconicity claims to be, remains unclear. This could be due to a lack of consensus on how to describe and test the perceptuo-motor affordances that make an iconic word feel imitative to speakers. We created and analyzed a database of 1,888 ideophones across 13 languages, and found that 5 articulatory properties, physiologically accessible to all spoken language users, pattern according to semantic features of ideophones. Our findings pave the way for future research to utilize articulatory properties as a means to test and explain how iconicity is encoded in spoken language. |
Description | Oral Presentation - Paper Session 21 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/271939 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Thompson, AL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Collignon, N | - |
dc.contributor.author | Do, Y | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-20T10:32:29Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-20T10:32:29Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019): Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 24-27 July 2019, p. 1104-1110 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0-9911967-7-5 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/271939 | - |
dc.description | Oral Presentation - Paper Session 21 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Iconic words are known to exhibit an imitative relationship between a word and its referent. Many studies have worked to pinpoint sound-to-meaning correspondences for ideophones from different languages. The correspondence patterns show similarities across language, but what makes such language-specific correspondences universal, as iconicity claims to be, remains unclear. This could be due to a lack of consensus on how to describe and test the perceptuo-motor affordances that make an iconic word feel imitative to speakers. We created and analyzed a database of 1,888 ideophones across 13 languages, and found that 5 articulatory properties, physiologically accessible to all spoken language users, pattern according to semantic features of ideophones. Our findings pave the way for future research to utilize articulatory properties as a means to test and explain how iconicity is encoded in spoken language. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cognitive Science Society. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019) | - |
dc.subject | Iconicity | - |
dc.subject | Ideophones | - |
dc.subject | Systematicity | - |
dc.subject | Sound symbolism | - |
dc.subject | Phonology | - |
dc.title | Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Do, Y: youngah@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Do, Y=rp02160 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 299443 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 304882 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 323890 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1104 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1110 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Montreal, QB | - |