A Survey of Sound Symbolism: Synesthetic Effects of Sound Symbolism on Perceptions of Korean Ideophones

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· 발행기관 : 한국어학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국어학 / 94권 / 87 ~ 126페이지
· 저자명 : Lee, Jeongyi

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Ideophones, vivid iconic words with clear sound symbolism that explicate how a speaker perceives a situation with the senses, are abundant in the Korean lexicon. Drawing on a brief overview of Korean sound symbolism literature, this paper investigates the synesthetic effects of the acoustic qualities on native and non-native speakers' evaluations of Korean ideophones. Grounded in the empirical data from 54 respondents' judgements on semantic differential scales, this paper argues that ideophones with liquid consonant and dark vowels are perceived more favorable evaluations by all the respondents. Unlike native raters who tend to rely on the semantic information with sound effects of the ideophones in their judgements, for non-native respondents, the effects of acoustic features of ideophones identified by the phonation types of vowels and consonants are the cues in perceiving their connotative meanings without any references of denotative meanings. These results support the prevalent view of sound symbolism as the associations between sound and meaning and further suggest that sound symbolism may play a potential role in learning Korean ideophones for non-native speakers.

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