Re: Orthographic Sound Symbolism
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 7, 2002, 23:14 |
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In a message dated 04/7/02 2:44:25 PM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
<< Now, as anybody investigated the possibility that it
isn't the phones [i] and [a] that have these connotations, but the graphs
{i} and {a}? Most linguistis are used to the Latin alphabet, in which {i} is
undeniably smaller than {a}, and my gut feeling is that my association of
[i] to smallness is at least partly orthographically motivated, but has
anyone made a scientific study? >>
Wouldn't the Japanese examples counter this, since Japanese doesn't use
Latin orthography?
-David
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