Luca Nobile
List of John Benjamins publications for which Luca Nobile plays a role.
Articles
2015 Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism applied to the distinctive features of French Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 71–91 | Article
This paper attempts to improve the understanding of shape-sound symbolism by isolating the phonological features of the pseudo-words used in the experiments and the graphic features of the figures matched with them. In a first section, it analyses the classic maluma-takete effect from both an… read more
2011 Words in the mirror: Analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 101–132 | Article
This paper proposes a theoretical, methodological and descriptive framework for combining a gestural-mimetic theory of the sign with the principle of arbitrariness. First, it draws attention to the history of the question, discusses its theoretical core and presents a method to analyse the… read more