PHONETIC SYMBOLISM WITH RESPECT TO 3 DIMENSIONS FROM THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
PHONETIC SYMBOLISM WITH RESPECT TO 3 DIMENSIONS FROM THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
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DOI:
10.1080/00221309.1958.9920401
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ERICKSON, M
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作者:
BIRCH, D;ERICKSON, M
Phonetic symbolism is a term employed to identify the tendency for~ roups of individuals to be consistent in the way in which they respond to unfamiliar phonetic sequences. Consistencies have been reported both for the rating of" nonlinguistic words" along a specified reference dimension (eg, magnitude) and for the matching of words from an unfamiliar foreign language with their English translations. Recent investigations of the latter type have been carried out by Maltzman, Morrisett, and Brooks (3) and by Brown, Black, and Horowitz (2), who also present a review of previous work.In early studies by Sapir (6) and Newman (4-) Ss were required to make paired comparison judgments on CVC sequences with respect to dimensions of magnitude and brightness, and evidence for an ordering of selected vowel and consonant sounds on these two dimensions was presented. Bentley and Varon (l), who employed a free association methodology, report no evidence for phonetic symbolism and suggest that the forced-choice technique used by Sapir and Newman may be an integral factor in their obtaining positive results. They also conclude that the phenomenon may be restricted to the magnitude and brightness continua, which are found to be correlated in Newman's study.