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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Phonetics

Background:

  • Sound symbolism describes the association between word form and meaning.
  • Previous research primarily used pseudo-words to study sound symbolism.
  • A gap exists in understanding sound symbolism's effect on real-world word usage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if facial valence influences the phoneme composition of chosen names.
  • To introduce a novel experimental paradigm using real names and faces.
  • To test the generalizability of sound symbolic associations to meaningful words.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments (N=399) involved participants naming faces presented with varying valence (facial expressions or likability).
  • A corpus analysis examined the relationship between name likability and phoneme occurrence in German first names.
  • Phoneme frequencies (i-phonemes and o-phonemes) were analyzed in relation to valence.

Main Results:

  • Names assigned to positively valenced faces contained more i-phonemes than those assigned to negatively valenced faces.
  • Facial valence did not significantly affect the occurrence of o-phonemes in names.
  • The results support the influence of sound symbolism on real name selection.

Conclusions:

  • The novel naming paradigm effectively bridges controlled experiments and natural language use.
  • Sound symbolic associations, specifically the i-phoneme effect, appear robust enough to generalize to meaningful words.
  • This research provides insights into the subconscious influence of emotion on language perception and production.