Phonetic Symbolism in Adult Native Speakers of English: Three Studies
Phonetic Symbolism in Adult Native Speakers of English: Three Studies
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成人英语母语者的语音象征：三项研究
作者：
R. Tarte;L. Barritt
本文报道了三个以英语为母语的成年人为研究对象的研究。每项研究都要求受试者用CVC三角图标记不同大小的椭圆或三角形图形。这些研究的目的是为“语音象征主义”假说提供证据。不管形状如何，受试者都同意元音和身材大小之间的关系。发音/a/多用于表示较大的数字，而/i/多用于表示较小的数字。在用元音标记数字时，观察到一个不那么引人注目但明显的趋势。初步得出的结论是，对于说英语的人来说，确实存在未被识别但一致的将声音和视觉刺激联系起来的基础。
Three studies using adult native speakers of English are reported. Each study asked subjects to label elliptical or triangular figures of different size with a CVC trigram. It was the purpose of these studies to obtain evidence in support of the " phonetic symbolism " hypothesis. Subjects agreed about the relationship between vowel sounds and the size of figure regardless of shape. The sound /a/ was more often chosen for large figures while /i/ was more often chosen for small. A less striking but discernible trend was observed for the labelling of figures with vowel sounds. It was tentatively concluded that, for English speakers, there do exist unrecognized yet consistent bases for relating sounds and visual stimuli.