The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

A Ćwiek, S Fuchs, C Draxler, EL Asu… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

Sound-action symbolism

L Vainio, M Vainio - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech.
For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip …

Energy flows in gesture-speech physics: The respiratory-vocal system and its coupling with hand gestures

W Pouw, SJ Harrison, N Esteve-Gibert… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Expressive moments in communicative hand gestures often align with emphatic stress in
speech. It has recently been found that acoustic markers of emphatic stress arise naturally …

Sound-symbolic association between speech sound and spatial meaning in relation to the concepts of up/down and above/below

L Vainio, A Wikström, C Repetto… - Language and Cognition, 2023 - cambridge.org
Research has shown sound-symbolic associations between speech sounds and conceptual
and/or perceptual properties of a referent. This study used the choice response time method …

Energy flows in gesture-speech physics: exploratory findings and pre-registration of confirmatory analysis

W Pouw, SJ Harrison, N Esteve-Gibert, JA Dixon - 2019 - osf.io
A well-known phenomenon of multimodal language is the synchronous coupling of prosodic
contours in speech with salient kinematic changes in co-speech hand-gesture motions …

[PDF][PDF] Hand-Mouth Coordination in a Pointing Task Requiring Manual Precision

A Cwiek, S Fuchs - Proceedings of the 12th ISSP. New Haven, CT …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In daily life, articulatory movements and pointing gestures are tightly coupled. Nevertheless,
the two motor systems governing the movements of the articulators and hands differ in their …

Iconicity in language and speech

A Cwiek - 2022 - edoc.hu-berlin.de
This dissertation is concerned with the major theme of iconicity and its prevalence on
different linguistic levels. Iconicity refers to a resemblance between the linguistic form and …

Sound effect, onomatopoeia, and iconic prosody in Chinese: Emerging vocal iconicity in child-directed speech and child production

M Han, Y Nie, Y Gu - Speech Prosody 2024, 2024 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Iconicity plays an important role in language acquisition and cognition. This study aimed to
better understand the use of three types of vocal iconicity in language input and child …

The importance of visual control and biomechanics in the regulation of gesture-speech synchrony for an individual deprived of proprioceptive feedback of body …

W Pouw, SJ Harrison, JA Dixon - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Do communicative actions such as gestures fundamentally differ in their control mechanisms
from other actions? Evidence for such fundamental differences comes from a classic gesture …

Bridging Word and World: Vocal Iconicity in Chinese Child-Directed Speech and Child Production

M Han, Y Nie, Y Gu - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
This study examines three types of vocal iconicity—sound effects, onomatopoeia, and iconic
prosody—in Chinese child-directed speech (CDS), adult-directed speech (ADS), and child …