Psychological Model of Phonosemantics.

Area of Science:

• Linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Phonetics

Background:

• Phonosemantics posits that phonemes have inherent psychological impressions influencing language evolution.
• Existing research provides a foundation, yet significant scope for further investigation remains.
• Understanding the phonetic-semantic link is crucial for deciphering language origins.

Purpose of the Study:

• To present a new hypothesis on the psychological representations of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) phonemes.
• To propose a psychological mind model illustrating the relationship between semantic and phonetic values.
• To address linguistic queries concerning naming conventions and arbitrariness in language.

Main Methods:

• Developing a hypothesis for psychological representations of IPA phonemes.
• Constructing a psychological mind model to map phoneme-semantic relationships.
• Applying semantic features to 245 words across various languages for validation.

Main Results:

• A novel hypothesis explaining psychological impressions of IPA phonemes.
• A proposed model demonstrating the connection between phonetic and psychological semantic values.
• Validation of the hypothesis through analysis of multilingual word data.

Conclusions:

• The proposed phonosemantics model offers a framework for understanding the inherent link between sound and meaning.
• This research provides evidence against the complete arbitrariness of word-object associations.
• The findings contribute to resolving linguistic debates on naming consistency and variation.