Phonetic bases of sound symbolism: A review

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<p>While the relationships between sounds and meanings are generally arbitrary in human languages, we do observe cases in which systematic correspondences hold between sounds and meanings, at least as stochastic tendencies. When such systematic sound-meaning relationships appear to be modulated by iconicity, we refer to these relationships as ``sound symbolism,'' although defining precisely what it means for a sou...

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• Adolescent
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• Child
• Incidence
• Phenotype
• Phylogeny
• Reproducibility of Results

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cd3bdd5e-81fe-5b4c-8df0-cd371caebcea

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10.31234/osf.io/fzvsu