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How Abstract is Sound Symbolism?Labiality and Diaper Names in Japanese
音韻素性に基づく音象徴
2020
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan
音韻素性に基づく音象徴
Most baby diaper names sold in Japan contain at least one [p] or [m] (e.g., /meriizu/; / muunii/; /panpaasu/; /mamiipoko/). Building on this observation, this paper explores the hypothesis that labial consonants in general are associated with the images of babies in Japanese, as labial consonants frequently occur in babbling. To this end, the current paper reports two experiments which examined the abstractness and productivity of this labialbaby sound symbolic association. Experiment I was a
doi:10.11435/gengo.157.0_149
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