Cross-Linguistically Shared and Language-Specific Sound Symbolism for Motion: An Exploratory Data Mining Approach

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1253-1258

  Saji, Noburo ^a   Akita, Kimi ^b   Imai, Mutsumi ^a   Kantartzis, Katerina ^c   Kita, Sotaro ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

canonical correlation analysis; mimetics; sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CANONICAL CORRELATIONS ANALYSIS; COMPLEX SOUNDS; EXPLORATORY DATA MINING; MIMETICS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; SOUND SYMBOLISM; SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85083421532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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