Sound symbolism emerged as a prevalent component in the origin and development of
language. However, as previous studies have either been lacking in scope or in phonetic …

This paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by
connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound …

Experimental and cross-linguistic studies have shown that vocal iconicity is prevalent in
words that carry meanings related to size and shape. Although these studies demonstrate …

The present paper addresses the study of non‐arbitrariness in language within a deep
learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness …

While recent years have seen a substantial increase of studies investigating vocal iconicity
in the lexicon of spoken languages, its presence in grammatical structures is poorly …

. Why study demonstratives?........................... Aims of the study and research
questions.................... Terminology..................................... Demonstratives and …

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] …

This paper investigates how cross-linguistic phoneme distributions of 56 fundamental
oppositional concepts can reveal semantic relationships by looking into the linguistic forms …

Demonstratives, broadly defined as a subclass of deictic expressions used for exophoric
reference, do not develop through direct grammaticalization (: 150). The renewal of …

This paper explores how three cognitive and perceptual cues, vocal iconicity, resemblance-
based mappings between form and meaning, and segment position and lexical stress …