Does thin sound “small” and heavy sound “big”? – An investigation of the size sound symbolic potential of antonym adjective pairs

Date:

Ebert, M. & Ćwiek, A. (07.2023). Does thin sound “small” and heavy sound “big”? – An investigation of the size sound symbolic potential of antonym adjective pairs.
Poster presented by Melissa Ebert (MA student).

This work was first-authored by the Melissa Ebert, a master’s student from my course on sound symbolism in the summer semester 2022 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She presented it as a poster during the workshop “From icon to abstraction: how iconicity shapes the lexicon” at the University of Birmingham.

A picture of Melissa and our poster

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