abstractThis paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound symbolic patterns in the words for colors in natural languages. Building upon earlier perceptual experiments, we hypothesized that sonorous and bright phonemes would be over-represented in the words for bright and saturated colors. This hypothesis was tested on eleven color words and related concepts (red–green, yellow–blue, black–white, gray, night–day, dark–light) from 245 language families. Textual data was transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and each phoneme was described acoustically using high-quality IPA recordings. These acoustic measurements were then correlated with the luminance and saturation of each color obtained from cross-linguistic color-naming data in the World Color Survey. As expected, vowels with high brightness and sonority ratings were over-represented in the words for colors with high luminance, while sonorous consonants were more common in the words for saturated colors. We discuss these results in relation to lexicalization patterns and the links between iconicity and perceptual cross-modal associations.

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自然语言中的颜色声音象征

摘要本文通过将来自跨模态对应研究的感知证据与自然语言中颜色​​单词中的声音符号模式联系起来，研究了声音-颜色关联的潜在认知过程。在早期的感知实验的基础上，我们假设响亮而明亮的音素在明亮和饱和颜色的词中会被过度代表。这个假设在十一个颜色词和相关概念上进行了测试（红色的–绿色,黄色的–蓝色,黑色的–白色的,灰色的,夜晚–日,黑暗的–光) 来自 245 个语系。文本数据被转录成国际音标 (IPA)，并使用高质量的 IPA 录音对每个音素进行声学描述。然后将这些声学测量与从世界色彩调查中的跨语言颜色命名数据中获得的每种颜色的亮度和饱和度相关联。正如预期的那样，具有高亮度和响度等级的元音在高亮度颜色的单词中出现过多，而响亮的辅音在饱和颜色的单词中更为常见。我们讨论这些结果与词汇化模式以及象似性和感知跨模态关联之间的联系。