Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (ie, phonemes) and
particular properties (eg, certain shapes). For example, phonemes like/m/are associated …

How do we represent and process abstract and concrete concepts? The “concreteness
effect”, in which words with more concrete meanings are processed more quickly and …

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 …

El objetivo principal de este artículo, de carácter meramente introductorio, es mostrar el
interés lingüístico de resultados obtenidos mediante las principales técnicas de …

Conceptual engineering is a philosophical method that aims to design and spread
conceptual and linguistic devices to cause meaningful changes in the world. So far …

This dissertation is concerned with the major theme of iconicity and its prevalence on
different linguistic levels. Iconicity refers to a resemblance between the linguistic form and …

This paper presents evidence for a regular sound change in 12th-century Old French where
word-initial/k/voiced to/ɡ/before/la/or/ra/. My treatment is the first to propose a unified …

El objetivo principal de este artículo, de carácter meramente introductorio, es mostrar el
interés lingüístico de resultados obtenidos mediante las principales técnicas de …

Phonesthesia is one of the counterexamples of the arbitrariness of human languages.
Although an individual word still appears arbitrary, a group of words bearing the same …

A recent investigation of 6452 languages (Blasi et al., 2016) uncovered a number of cross-
linguistic correspondences between speech sounds and meaning. For example, the phone …