Contiguity-based sound iconicity: The meaning of words resonates with phonetic properties of their immediate verbal contexts.

PLoS One · 2019 · PMC6522027 · PMID 31095612

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Testing the influence of the target words on the phonetic characteristics of their context, we found a highly significant effect of the semantic category on the frequency of the first two formants (V = 0.03, F [2,297] = 5.2, p < .01).

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