Semantics Based on the Physical Characteristics of Facial Expressions Used to Produce Japanese Vowels
Previous studies have reported that verbal sounds are associated—non-arbitrarily—with specific meanings (e.g., sound symbolism and onomatopoeia), including visual forms of information such as facial expressions; however, it remains unclear how mouth shapes used to utter each vowel create our semanti...
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MDPI AG
2020-10-01
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Series: | Behavioral Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/10/10/157 |