The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

Cross-modal integration between sound and texture is important to perception and action.
Here we show this has repercussions for the structure of spoken languages. We present a …

Classical linguistic theory assumes that formal aspects, like sound, are not internally related
to the meaning of words. However, recent research suggests language might code affective …

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 …

The vocabularies of natural languages harbour many instances of iconicity, where words
show a perceived resemblance between aspects of form and meaning. An open challenge …

This theme issue builds on the surge of interest in the field of language evolution as part of
the broader field of human evolution, gathering some of the field's most prominent experts in …

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

A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to
the languages we use today The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our …

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of
linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for …

Sound Symbolism is a well studied psychological phenomena of the relation between sound
and meaning in natural language. Though the phenomena has been studied by …