Sound symbolism in Japanese names: Machine learning approaches to gender classification

CH Ngai, AJ Kilpatrick, A Ćwiek - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This study investigates the sound symbolic expressions of gender in Japanese names with
machine learning algorithms. The main goal of this study is to explore how gender is …

Prominence effects in vocal iconicity: Implications for lexical access and language change

N Erben Johansson - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper explores how three cognitive and perceptual cues, vocal iconicity, resemblance-
based mappings between form and meaning, and segment position and lexical stress …

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A Kniivilä - sol.lu.se
Most systems of nominal classification have some vague semantic basis, and animacy is
one of the most commonly used semantic parameters. It has been suggested that the e …