TY - CHAP TI - Synthesized size-sound sound symbolism AU - Lockwood, Gwilym AU - Hagoort, Peter AU - Dingemanse, Mark T2 - Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society A2 - Papafragou, Anna A2 - Grodner, D. A2 - Mirman, D. A2 - Trueswell, John C. AB - Studies of sound symbolism have shown that people can associate sound and meaning in consistent ways when presented with maximally contrastive stimulus pairs of nonwords such as bouba/kiki (rounded/sharp) or mil/mal (small/big). Recent work has shown the effect extends to antonymic words from natural languages and has proposed a role for shared cross-modal correspondences in biasing formto- meaning associations. An important open question is how the associations work, and particularly what the role is of sound-symbolic matches versus mismatches. We report on a learning task designed to distinguish between three existing theories by using a spectrum of sound-symbolically matching, mismatching, and neutral (neither matching nor mismatching) stimuli. Synthesized stimuli allow us to control for prosody, and the inclusion of a neutral condition allows a direct test of competing accounts. We find evidence for a sound-symbolic match boost, but not for a mismatch difficulty compared to the neutral condition. CY - Austin, TX DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 SP - 1823 EP - 1828 PB - Cognitive Science Society KW - language_en KW - publist_main ER -