Some experimental evidence for sound–emotion interaction
Chen Gafni | Bar-Ilan University
Reuven Tsur | Tel Aviv University
This paper describes a structural account of phonetic symbolism
and submits it to empirical investigation. To enable testing for possible iconic
sound–emotion relations, participants compared pairs of syllables (e.g.,
ma – ba) as well as pairs of emotional
states (e.g., joyful – sad) on various perceptual scales (e.g., softness). In
addition, we replicated the classic ‘bouba/kiki’ experiment to investigate
sound-shape symbolism. In accordance with the theoretical model, the results of
the experimental tasks suggest that participants can detect abstract
similarities between speech sounds and emotions as well as geometrical shapes.
We discuss the theoretical model and the experimental results in relation to
previous empirical findings and conflicting evidence from the study of affective
iconicity in poetry.
Keywords: sound symbolism, affective iconicity, phonological iconicity, cognitive poetics, sound-to-meaning, phonoaesthetics
Article outline
- A structural theory of phonetic symbolism
- Rationale and hypotheses
- Methods
- Participants
- Stimuli and procedure
- Data analysis
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Notes
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References
Published online: 04 February 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19002.gaf
https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19002.gaf
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