Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance

Jan Auracher

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187196

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Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance

Jan Auracher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jan.auracher@aesthetics.mpg.de

Affiliation Department for Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt aM, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-8350

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Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance

Jan Auracher

Published: November 1, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187196

About the Authors

Jan Auracher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jan.auracher@aesthetics.mpg.de

Affiliation Department for Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt aM, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-8350

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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