Segmental properties of speech can convey sound symbolic meaning. This study presents two novel sound-meaning mappings using a choice reaction time paradigm in which participants have to select quickly one of the two vocal response alternatives based on predefined categories of perceptual magnitude. The first study showed that the short distance between perceived objects facilitates the initiation of the vowel [i] production, while long distance facilitates the production of [u] and [æ]. Correspondingly, in the second study, vocal responses produced with [i] and [e] were initiated faster when the stimuli required short vocalizations, while responses produced with [u], [æ] and [y] were faster when the stimuli required long vocalizations. Hence, similar sound-meaning mappings were observed concerning concepts of spatial and temporal length. This suggests that different sound-magnitude effects can be generalized to the common processing of conceptual magnitude. A conceptual magnitude seems to be implicitly and systematically associated with an articulatory response of a specific vowel. The study also suggests that in addition to the vowel openness and backness, the vowel roundness can also associate particular vowels with large magnitudes.

语音的分段特性可以传达声音的象征意义。这项研究提出了两种新的使用选择反应时间范式的声音映射，参与者必须根据预定义的感知幅度类别，快速选择两种声音响应替代方案之一。第一项研究表明，感知对象之间的短距离促进了元音[i]的产生，而长距离促进了[u]和[æ]的产生。相应地，在第二项研究中，当刺激需要短时发声时，由[i]和[e]产生的声音反应更快地开始，而当刺激需要长时发声时，由[u]，[æ]和[y]产生的声音反应更快。发声。因此，关于空间和时间长度的概念，观察到类似的声音映射。这表明可以将不同的声幅效应推广到概念幅值的通用处理。概念上的幅度似乎与特定元音的发音响应隐式且系统地关联。研究还表明，除了元音开放度和背面度外，元音圆度还可以使特定的元音具有较大的关联性。