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SUBMITTER: Lin Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8234476 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Zihan Z Wang Nan N Yan Yan Y Kambara Toshimune T
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 20210621 6
In this study, we examined whether vowel length affected the perceptual and emotional evaluations of Japanese sound-symbolic words. The perceptual and emotional features of Japanese sound-symbolic words, which included short and long vowels, were evaluated by 209 native Japanese speakers. The results showed that subjective evaluations of familiarity, visual imageability, auditory imageability, tactile imageability, emotional valence, arousal, and length were significantly higher for sound-symbol ...[more]