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Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 39] 2022
► pp. 109–130

Chapter 6
Lexical regularities

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Whissell on phonosymbolism
  • 6.3Sound symbolism and the lexicon
  • 6.4The phonestheme fl-
  • 6.5The frequency code
  • 6.6The frequency code and phonesthemes
  • 6.7Phonestheme as open concept
  • 6.8Conclusions
  • Notes