The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

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 …

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 …

Onomatopoeia has not been paid much attention in theoretical linguistics, which may be
related to its iconic‐symbolic nature. Moreover, the concept of onomatopoeia and its …

One speech sound can be associated with multiple meanings through iconicity, indexicality,
and/or systematicity. It was not until recently that this “pluripotentiality” of sound symbolism …

This paper seeks to uncover patterns of sound change across Indo-Aryan languages using
an LSTM encoder-decoder architecture. We augment our models with embeddings …

Onomatopoeias (< old Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα 'name', ποιέω 'I make') are mimetic
elements representing sounds and lexicalizations of sounds (to smack). A large set of …

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

Research shows that high‐and low‐pitch sounds can be associated with various meanings.
For example, high‐pitch sounds are associated with small concepts, whereas low‐pitch …

The primary goal of this paper is to retrace the origins of the phonesthemic {gr-
/prehension},{sm-/oral phenomena} and {sn-/nasality} relations attested in English by words …