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Bock, Michael. 1983. On the 'natural' meaning of acoustic signals. In Rickheit, Gert and Michael Bock, eds. Psycholinguistic studies in language processing. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 29–55. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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An experimental inquiry, intended to answer the question whether it is an arbitrary matter what conceptual meaning is represented by an acoustic signal. The conclusion is that they have a unique affective meaning, and consequently B. doubts that there is any point in the functional division between linguistic surface form and linguistic content or semantic basis.