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• Title:
  Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition
• Creator:
  Wrembel, Magdalena
• Contributor:
  Adam Mickiewicz University
• Description:
  The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e. non-arbitrary representations of a phoneme by specific semantic criteria. Secondly, the results of a preliminary study on different manifestations of sound symbolism including emotionally-loaded representations of phonemes and other synaesthetic associations shall be discussed. Finally, practical pedagogical implications of sound symbolism will be explored and a number of innovative classroom activities involving sound symbolic associations will be presented.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.06.12;
  2010.10.19
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;8
• Subject:
  sound symbolism;
  synaesthetic vowel mappings;
  pronunciation pedagogy
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9576 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.2478/v10015-010-0013-6
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other