Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are
associated with size, especially high front vowels with 'small'and low back vowels with …

A growing body of research testifies that humans naturally deduce certain images from
auditory cues as they do from visual cues. In the context of branding, this paper bridges two …

Using fictitious country names in hypothetical scenarios is widespread in experimental
international relations research. We survey sixty-four peer-reviewed articles to find that it is …

Hopfield networks are artificial neural networks which store memory patterns on the states of
their neurons by choosing recurrent connection weights and update rules such that the …

We tested the influence of perceptual features on semantic associations between the
acoustic characteristics of vowels and the notion of size. To this end, we designed an …

The past couple of decades have seen a substantial increase in linguistic research that
highlights the non-arbitrariness of language, as manifested in motivated sound–meaning …

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 …

Sound symbolism occurs when the sound of a word alone can convey its meaning, eg
'balloon'and 'spike'sound rounded and pointed, respectively. Sound-symbolic …

Sound symbolism–the ability of certain phonemes to evoke automatic, implicit associations
or meanings–has been documented for a variety of consonants and vowels. However, to …