A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
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声音象征的跨语言研究：尺寸图像
DOI：
10.3765/bls.v36i1.3926
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
S. Kawahara
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作者：
K. Shinohara;S. Kawahara
文章报道了一个关于大小相关的声音象征的实验，它表明某些声音象征模式在不同语言中具有鲁棒性。特别是，我们调查的图像大小（小或大）是如何受到三个语音因素：元音的高度，元音的backness，并在obstruents清化。我们对汉语、英语、日语和韩语四种语言的评分实验表明，这三个因素都对大小形象有影响，只有少数例外。为了解释这些结果，我们提供了这些大小相关的声音象征模式的语音基础。我们进一步提出，这些语音基础的声音符号模式是“体现”的意义上的约翰逊（1987）和莱考夫和约翰逊（1980，1999）的可能性。1.背景声音象征是指特定的图像与特定的声音相关联的情况;例如，萨皮尔（1929）的开创性实验工作表明，英语使用者倾向于将[a]与比[i]更大的图像相关联。以往的研究认为，这些声音符号模式有语音基础（Eberhardt 1940; MacNeilage and Davis 2001; Ohala 1983 b，1994;佩吉特1930; Sapir 1929）;例如，在一个实施例中，[a]可能比[i]更大，因为[a]涉及比[i]更宽的嘴张开，关于声音象征的文献很多，在这篇短文中无法一一列举
paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain sound symbolic patterns hold robustly across languages. In particular, we investigate how the images of size (small or large) are affected by three phonetic factors: the height of vowels, the backness of vowels, and voicing in obstruents. Our rating experiment of four languages—Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean—shows that these three factors contribute to the images of size, with only a few exceptions. To explain the results, we offer phonetic grounding of these size-related sound symbolism patterns. We further raise the possibility that these phonetically grounded sound symbolic patterns are ‘embodied’ in the sense of Johnson (1987) and Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999). 1. Background Sound symbolism refers to cases in which particular images are associated with certain sounds; for example, Sapir’s (1929) seminal experimental work shows that English speakers tend to associate [a] with an image larger than that associated with [i]. Previous studies have argued that these sound symbolic patterns have phonetic bases (e.g. Eberhardt 1940; MacNeilage and Davis 2001; Ohala 1983b, 1994; Paget 1930; Sapir 1929); for example, [a] may be perceived as larger than [i] because [a] involves wider opening of the mouth than [i] (see section 5 for 1 There is a large body of literature on sound symbolism, which is too large to list in this short