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[Paper] Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1605782113This paper provides some actual data on the bouba-kiki effect, where certain words are non-arbitrarily associated with certain meanings, by analysing the frequency of sounds used in words conveying a specific meaning (as "bone", "stone", etc.). It takes cognates and areal effects into account.
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