Pokémonikers: A study of sound symbolism and Pokémon names
Pokémonikers: A study of sound symbolism and Pokémon names
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神奇宝贝：声音象征和神奇宝贝名称的研究
DOI：
10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4335
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Darya Kavitskaya
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作者：
Stephanie S. Shih;Jordan Ackerman;Noah Hermalin;Sharon Inkelas;Darya Kavitskaya
声音象征主义蔑视人类语言中符号任意性的核心假设。声音象征的跨语言盛行引发了声音象征对应的普遍性与语言特殊性的关键问题。研究跨语言声音符号模式的一个挑战是很难在不同的文化中保持真实世界的指代不变。在这项研究中，我们通过使用来自精灵宝可梦游戏系列的丰富的跨语言数据集来解决跨语言比较的挑战。在这个受控的宇宙中，我们比较了日本和英国口袋妖怪名字(Pokemonikers)的声音象征意义。我们的结果表明，两种语言都倾向于用声音符号来编码相同的属性，但也揭示了根植于语言特定的结构和词汇限制的关键差异。
Sound symbolism flouts the core assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign in human language. The cross-linguistic prevalence of sound symbolism raises key questions about the universality versus language-specificity of sound symbolic correspondences. One challenge to studying cross-linguistic sound symbolic patterns is the difficulty of holding constant real-world referents across cultures. In this study, we address the challenge of cross-linguistic comparison by utilising a rich, cross-linguistic dataset drawn from the Pokemon game franchise. Within this controlled universe, we compare the sound symbolisms of Japanese and English Pokemon names ( pokemonikers ). Our results show a tendency in both languages to encode the same attributes with sound symbolism, but also reveal key differences rooted in language-specific structural and lexical constraints.