When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter
Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same answer in a quiz: Which novel word form (‘maluma’ or ‘takete’) went best with which abstract line drawing (one curved, one angular). Others have consistently shown the effect in a variety of contexts, with only one...
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| description | Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same answer in a quiz: Which novel word form (‘maluma’ or ‘takete’) went best with which abstract line drawing (one curved, one angular). Others have consistently shown the effect in a variety of contexts, with only one reported failure by Rogers and Ross. In the spirit of transparency, we report our own failure in the same journal. In our study, speakers of Syuba, from the Himalaya in Nepal, do not show a preference when matching word forms ‘kiki’ and ‘bubu’ to spiky versus curvy shapes. We conducted a meta-analysis of previous studies to investigate the relationship between pseudoword legality and task effects. Our combined analyses suggest a common source for both of the failures: ‘wordiness’ – We believe these tests fail when the test words do not behave according to the sound structure of the target language. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1053652019-12-10T13:36:47Z When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter Styles, Suzy J. Gawne, Lauren School of Social Sciences Cross-cultural Perception Cross-modal Congruence Social sciences::Psychology Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same answer in a quiz: Which novel word form (‘maluma’ or ‘takete’) went best with which abstract line drawing (one curved, one angular). Others have consistently shown the effect in a variety of contexts, with only one reported failure by Rogers and Ross. In the spirit of transparency, we report our own failure in the same journal. In our study, speakers of Syuba, from the Himalaya in Nepal, do not show a preference when matching word forms ‘kiki’ and ‘bubu’ to spiky versus curvy shapes. We conducted a meta-analysis of previous studies to investigate the relationship between pseudoword legality and task effects. Our combined analyses suggest a common source for both of the failures: ‘wordiness’ – We believe these tests fail when the test words do not behave according to the sound structure of the target language. Published version 2019-08-05T08:09:26Z 2019-12-06T21:50:02Z 2019-08-05T08:09:26Z 2019-12-06T21:50:02Z 2017 Journal Article Styles, S. J., & Gawne, L. (2017). When Does Maluma/Takete Fail? Two Key Failures and a Meta-Analysis Suggest That Phonology and Phonotactics Matter. i-Perception, 8(4), 1-17. doi:10.1177/2041669517724807 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105365 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517724807 en i-Perception © 2017 The Author(s). Creative Commons CC-BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). 17 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Cross-cultural Perception Cross-modal Congruence Social sciences::Psychology Styles, Suzy J. Gawne, Lauren When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title | When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title_full | When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title_fullStr | When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title_full_unstemmed | When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title_short | When does maluma/takete fail? two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| title_sort | when does maluma takete fail two key failures and a meta analysis suggest that phonology and phonotactics matter |
| topic | Cross-cultural Perception Cross-modal Congruence Social sciences::Psychology |
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