Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition

• Authors: Magdalena Wrembel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

sound symbolism; synaesthetic vowel mappings; pronunciation pedagogy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 1-14

Dates

published

2010-09-30

online

2010-10-19

Contributors

author

Magdalena Wrembel

• Adam Mickiewicz University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-010-0013-6