Early Sound Symbolism for Vowel Sounds

Children and adults consistently match some words (e.g., kiki) to jagged shapes and other words (e.g., bouba) to rounded shapes, providing evidence for non-arbitrary sound–shape mapping. In this study, we investigated the influence of vowels on sound–shape matching in toddlers, using four contrastin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ferrinne Spector, Daphne Maurer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-06-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0535