What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism?
What is the link between synaesthesia and sound symbolism?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.013
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发表时间：
2015-03
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Simner J
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文献类型：
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作者：
Bankieris K;Simner J
语音象征是某些词汇的一种特性，其语音形式和语义之间存在直接联系。在某些情况下，语音象征可以让非母语者理解词源上不熟悉的外来词的意思，尽管其驱动机制尚未被充分理解。我们研究了语音象征是否可能由与联觉体验相同类型的跨模态过程所介导。联觉是一种遗传性疾病，在这种疾病中，感官或认知刺激（例如声音、词汇）会引发额外的、不寻常的跨模态感知（例如声音触发颜色，词汇触发味道）。联觉可能是正常跨模态处理的一种夸张，如果是这样，联觉和语音象征中固有的跨模态类型之间可能存在联系。为了验证这一点，我们预测联觉者对不熟悉的（具有语音象征的）外来词会有更好的理解。在我们的研究中，19名字形 - 颜色联觉者和57名非联觉对照者被呈现来自10种不熟悉语言的400个形容词，并被要求在二选一的强制选择任务中猜测每个单词的意思。两组都表现出比随机水平更好的理解能力，但联觉者明显优于对照组。这种增强的能力表明语音象征可能依赖于驱动联觉者不寻常体验的跨模态整合类型。这也表明联觉赋予或伴随着增强的多模态技能，而且这种情况可能出现在与联觉的特定形式无关的领域。
Sound symbolism is a property of certain words which have a direct link between their phonological form and their semantic meaning. In certain instances, sound symbolism can allow non-native speakers to understand the meanings of etymologically unfamiliar foreign words, although the mechanisms driving this are not well understood. We examined whether sound symbolism might be mediated by the same types of cross-modal processes that typify synaesthetic experiences. Synaesthesia is an inherited condition in which sensory or cognitive stimuli (e.g., sounds, words) cause additional, unusual cross-modal percepts (e.g., sounds trigger colours, words trigger tastes). Synaesthesia may be an exaggeration of normal cross-modal processing, and if so, there may be a link between synaesthesia and the type of cross-modality inherent in sound symbolism. To test this we predicted that synaesthetes would have superior understanding of unfamiliar (sound symbolic) foreign words. In our study, 19 grapheme-colour synaesthetes and 57 non-synaesthete controls were presented with 400 adjectives from 10 unfamiliar languages and were asked to guess the meaning of each word in a two-alternative forced-choice task. Both groups showed superior understanding compared to chance levels, but synaesthetes significantly outperformed controls. This heightened ability suggests that sound symbolism may rely on the types of cross-modal integration that drive synaesthetes’ unusual experiences. It also suggests that synaesthesia endows or co-occurs with heightened multi-modal skills, and that this can arise in domains unrelated to the specific form of synaesthesia.
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0402680101
发表时间：
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影响因子：
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