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[Paper] Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages (www.pnas.org)
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This paper provides some actual data on the bouba-kiki effect, where certain words are non-arbitrarily associated with certain meanings, by analysing the frequency of sounds used in words conveying a specific meaning (as "bone", "stone", etc.). It takes cognates and areal effects into account.

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