The pluripotentiality of bilabial consonants: The images of softness and cuteness in Japanese and English
The current study experimentally examined whether labial consonants were sound-symbolically associated with the images of softness and cuteness in Japanese and English. The results showed that all the bilabial consonants [p, b, m, ɸ, w] used in Japanese convey such images. In English, the consonants...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0040 |