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Synesthetic Sound Iconicity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24520481
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionKonan University (2014)
Doshisha University (2012-2013)

Principal Investigator

AURACHER Jan  甲南大学, 国際言語文化センター, 講師 (10548035)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) RIKIMARU Hiroshi  同志社大学, 生命医科学部, 教授 (90260207)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords心理言語学 / Sound Iconicity / 国際情報交換ドイツ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research it was investigated whether associations between phonemes and emotional states can be predicted on the basis of articulatory-acoustic properties of these phonemes. The research applied the Implicit-Association-Test (Greenwald et al, 1998), a speeded categorization paradigm specifically suited to detect implicit associations between stimuli of different sensory modalities. Participants were asked to categorize pseudo-words, consisting of specific combinations of phonemes, and pictures, depicting emotional body postures by pressing either a left or a right button. It was predicted that participants perform the task faster and with less mistakes when stimuli that are associated across sensory modalities (i.e., acoustic and visual) are allocated to the same response behavior (left or right button). Results of these experiments suggest that there is an implicit tendency to associate specific acoustic characteristics of phonemes with emotional states.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2015 2014 2013

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Synaesthetic Sound Iconicity: Phonosemantic associations between acoustic features of phonemes and emotional behavior2015

    • Author(s)
      Auracher, Jan
    • Journal Title

      Iconicity in Language and Literature

      Volume: 14 Pages: 93-108

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Implicit associations between acoustic characteristics of phonemes and emotions.2014

    • Author(s)
      Auracher, Jan
    • Organizer
      International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
    • Place of Presentation
      Turino, Italy
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-21 – 2014-07-25
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Implicit associations between acoustic characteristics of phonemes and emotions2014

    • Author(s)
      Jan Auracher
    • Organizer
      14th Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
    • Place of Presentation
      トリノ、イタリア
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Synaesthetic Sound Iconicity: Cross-modal integration of acoustic aspects of speech with non-acoustic aspects of meaning2013

    • Author(s)
      Jan Auracher
    • Organizer
      23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discorse
    • Place of Presentation
      Valencia, Spain
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Synesthetic Sound Iconicity and its potential for automatic text analysis2013

    • Author(s)
      Jan Auracher
    • Organizer
      9th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
    • Place of Presentation
      東京
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Synaesthetic Sound Iconicity: Cross-modal integration of acoustic aspects of speech with non-acoustic aspects of meaning2013

    • Author(s)
      Jan Auracher
    • Organizer
      23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
    • Place of Presentation
      Valencia, Spain
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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