Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English.
Adult
Female
Humans
Japan
Locomotion
/ physiology
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Pattern Recognition, Physiological
/ physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual
/ physiology
Phonetics
Running
/ physiology
Semantics
Sound
Speech
/ physiology
Symbolism
United Kingdom
Video Recording
Vocabulary
Walking
/ physiology
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
11
08
2018
accepted:
07
06
2019
entrez:
11
7
2019
pubmed:
11
7
2019
medline:
23
2
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This paper demonstrates a new quantitative approach to examine cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in languages. Unlike most previous studies taking a hypothesis-testing approach, we employed a data mining approach to uncover unknown sound-symbolic correspondences in the domain of locomotion, without limiting ourselves to pre-determined sound-meaning correspondences. In the experiment, we presented 70 locomotion videos to Japanese and English speakers and asked them to create a sound symbolically matching word for each action. Participants also rated each action on five meaning variables. Multivariate analyses revealed cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound-meaning correspondences within a single semantic domain. The present research also established that a substantial number of sound-symbolic links emerge from conventionalized form-meaning mappings in the native languages of the speakers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31291274
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218707
pii: PONE-D-18-23729
pmc: PMC6619670
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0218707Subventions
Organisme : Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
ID : BB/G023069/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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