The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

Across diverse lineages, animals communicate using chemosignals, but only humans
communicate about chemical signals. Many studies have observed that compared with other …

An elicitation task was conducted with speakers of Japonic varieties to investigate whether
stimuli of varying sensory modalities (eg audio, visual, tactile etc.) were more or less likely to …

Odour-sound correspondences provide some of the most fascinating and intriguing
examples of crossmodal associations, in part, because it is unclear from where exactly they …

Experts have better memory for items within their domain of expertise. Critically, this does
not depend on more efficient use of language. However, this conclusion is based mainly on …

Olfaction has recently been highlighted as a sense poorly connected with language. Odor is
difficult to verbalize, and it has few qualities that afford mimicry by vision or sound. At the …

Recent research shows that speakers of most languages find smells difficult to abstract and
name. Can verbal labels enhance the human capacity to learn smell categories? Few …

This chapter studies the semantics of ideophones, alternatively known as mimetics or
expressives. The surveyed approaches include Image Schemas, Idealized Cognitive …

The lexicalization of perception verbs has been of widespread interest as a route into
understanding the relationship between language and cognition. A recent study finds global …

Previous studies claim there are few olfactory metaphors cross-linguistically, especially
compared to metaphors originating in the visual and auditory domains. We show olfaction …