The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

It is widely assumed that one of the fundamental properties of spoken language is the
arbitrary relation between sound and meaning. Some exceptions in the form of nonarbitrary …

Iconic words and signs are characterized by a perceived resemblance between aspects of
their form and aspects of their meaning. For example, in English, iconic words include peep …

Sound symbolism emerged as a prevalent component in the origin and development of
language. However, as previous studies have either been lacking in scope or in phonetic …

Some spoken words are iconic, exhibiting a resemblance between form and meaning. We
used native speaker ratings to assess the iconicity of 3001 English words, analyzing their …

Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a
significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed …

This study investigates the sound symbolic expressions of gender in Japanese names with
machine learning algorithms. The main goal of this study is to explore how gender is …

This paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by
connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound …

Growing evidence from across the cognitive sciences indicates that iconicity plays an
important role in a number of fundamental language processes, spanning learning …