The sound of round: Evaluating the sound-symbolic role of consonants in the classic takete-maluma phenomenon

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-124

  Nielsen, Alan ^a   Rendall, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bouba kiki; Language structure; Name shape biases; Sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80053422621     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022268     Document Type: Article

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