In different languages around the world, morphemes representing the (cooked form of)
staple food or food in general tend to begin with a [+ labial] phoneme followed by a [+ low] …

An iconic pattern across spoken languages is that words for 'this' and 'here'tend to have high
front vowels, whereas words for 'that'and 'there'tend to have low and/or back vowels. In …

Phonesthesia is one of the counterexamples of the arbitrariness of human languages.
Although an individual word still appears arbitrary, a group of words bearing the same …

Often described alongside sound symbolism, iconicity or systematicity, phonaesthemes are
recurring sub-morphemic sound-to-meaning correspondences; for example, the semantic …

To what degree and in what manner are prosaic words iconic? The English noun breast is
iconic in the sense that it bears the [+ labial] phoneme b, thus sharing the universal tendency …