The Effect of Prosodic Structure and Segment on Sound Symbolism

• Main Authors: Shiu, Ler-Jia, 許樂加
• Other Authors: Lai, Yuwen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07832138211673604730

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 外國語文學系外國文學與語言學碩士班 === 102 === The purpose of this study is to present evidence of sound emotion phenomenon in language by intensity, duration, F0, F1 and F2, and language form comparison. This study proposes the following two different methods. (1) Measured the degrees of emotions by Semantic Differential Scale. (2) Took common form ABAB compared with AABB to examine emotions evoked by them. Stimuli are consonants /h/, /p/, /t/, /k/, and vowels /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/. The results suggested that (1) the most significant elements in positive emotion were consonant /k/ and vowels /i/, /a/, and they tended to be high intensity and long duration. (2) The most significant elements in negative emotion were consonant /h/ and vowel /e/, and they tended to be low F1 and F2. (3) ABAB tended to evoke positive emotion than AABB. This study provides additional evidence for sound emotion phenomenon, and it could be applied to further studies in other languages, teaching methodologies, literature, translation, and commercial fields.