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¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study approaches to examine how cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism coexist in a language. 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 both cross-linguistically shared and language specific sound symbolism, but the most of the identified sound-meaning correspondences were found only in one language. We suggest that cross-linguistically shared sound symbolism builds upon our bodily experience and that language-specific sound symbolism arises from the constraints of individual languages at the phonetic, phonemic, and lexical levels.
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