Accounting for the stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model

Sound symbolism refers to stochastic and systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has not received much serious attention in the generative phonology literature, perhaps because most if not all sound symbolic patterns are probabilistic. Building on the recent proposal to...

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Main Authors: Kawahara Shigeto, Katsuda Hironori, Kumagai Gakuji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-05-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0007