A Study in Phonetic Symbolism.

Sapir, E. (1929). A Study in Phonetic Symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12(3), 225-239.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1929

DOI

10.1037/h0070931

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/h0070931

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linguistics_semiotics

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• Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions
  • ): The arbitrariness principle extends to cultural semiotics — myths, advertisements, fashion — where cultural meaning is produced through conventionally-held signifier-signified relations. Sound-symbolism research (Sapir 1929,

    This sourceClassic sound-symbolism experiment: subjects shown nonsense words mil and mal judge the mal-named object larger, indicating non-arbitrary size/vowel associations made without instruction.

• Iconicity
  • The resemblance relation manifests across multiple dimensions—visual iconography (a portrait of a face), auditory iconicity (onomatopoeia: "buzz," "crash," "meow"), articulatory symbolism (Sapir 1929

    This sourceSapir A Study in Phonetic Symbolism mil-mal sound symbolism experiment.

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