How can we make universally sensed sound-meaning combinations? : Conditions for universal and language-specific sound symbolism.
Project/Area Number |
26580078
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Linguistics
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Research Institution | Keio University |
Principal Investigator |
IMAI Mutsumi 慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部(藤沢), 教授 (60255601)
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥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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Keywords | 心理言語学 / 音象徴 |
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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Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(14 results)
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[Journal Article] Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds.2015
Author(s)
Imai, M., Miyazaki, M., Yeung, Henny, Hidaka, S, Kantartzis, K, Okada, H., and Kita, S.
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Journal Title
Plos ONE
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Pages: 1-17
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Peer Reviewed / Open Access
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[Journal Article] Sound Symbolism Scaffolds Language Development in Preverbal Infants.2015
Author(s)
Asano,M. , Imai,M. ,Kita,S. ,Kitajo,K. , Okada,H. Thierry, G.
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Journal Title
Cortex
Volume: 63
Pages: 196-205
DOI
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Peer Reviewed / Open Access
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[Journal Article] How Sound Symbolism Is Processed in the Brain, A Study on Japanese Mimetic Words2014
Author(s)
Kanero, J., Imai, M., Okuda, J., Okada, H., Matsuda, T.
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Journal Title
PLoS ONE
Volume: Vol.9(5)
Issue: 5
Pages: 1-8
DOI
NAID
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Peer Reviewed / Open Access
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