Chapter published in:
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 39] 2022
► pp. 45–66

Chapter 2
Phonetic symbolism

Double-edgedness and aspect-switching

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Cognitive theory
    • 2.2.1Double-edgedness and aspect-switching
    • 2.2.2Encodedness of speech sounds and modes of speech perception
  • 2.3Phonetic symbolism in the lexicon and in poetry
    • 2.3.1Phonetic symbolism in the lexicon
    • 2.3.2Literary phonetic symbolism
  • 2.4Phonetic symbolism in the laboratory
    • 2.4.1Experimental evidence for the cognitive model underlying phonetic symbolism
    • 2.4.2Experimental evidence for sound symbolism
  • 2.5Resonance, co-articulation, and precategorical perception
  • 2.6Phonetic symbolism, innateness, and the brain
  • 2.7Objections to the foregoing conception
  • 2.8Conclusions
  • Notes