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The Bouba-Kiki effect is predicted by sound properties but not speech properties

2021-09-23

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<p>Humans robustly associate spiky shapes to words like “Kiki” and round shapes to words like “Bouba”. A popular explanation is that the mouth forms an angular shape while saying “Kiki” and a rounded shape while saying “Bouba”, leading to this association. Alternatively, there could be generic associations between the shapes of objects and the sounds they produce. These possibilities can be distinguished using unp...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a7j5x

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