sound-symbolic

短语

别名

sound symbolic

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    characterized by sound symbolism

    语言学
  2. 2.

    characterized by sound symbolism

    (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic

    语言学

    "Bouba" and "Kiki" are sound-symbolic labels, not directly imitating any actual sound but nonetheless carrying strong intrinsic associations with roundness and pointiness, respectively.

词源

From sound symbolism + -ic.

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