- 著者
- Gakuji Kumagai Naoya Watabe Shigeto Kawahara
- 出版者
- 日本音声学会
- 雑誌
- 音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.27, no.2, pp.64-72, 2023-10-31 (Released:2023-10-31)
- 参考文献数
- 66
Kumagai & Kawahara (2022) found that Russian speakers tend to judge names with [Ca] to be more suitable for larger, post-evolution Pokémon characters than names with [Ci]. This result raised a new question regarding whether it is the vowel quality difference or consonant palatalization caused by [i] that affected the responses. The current experiment compared three conditions ([Ca] vs. [Cja] vs. [Ci]) and found that names with [Cja] were judged to be least appropriate for post-evolution characters, suggesting the important role of phonemic palatalization. The current experiment additionally showed that Russian speakers tend to judge longer names to be more suitable for post-evolution characters.
4 0 0 0 OA 音象徴からポケモンのタイプを推測できるか―有声性と唇音性の効果を通して―
- 著者
- Shigeto Kawahara Gakuji Kumagai
- 出版者
- 日本音声学会
- 雑誌
- 音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.23, pp.111-116, 2019-08-31 (Released:2019-08-31)
- 参考文献数
- 48
Recent studies show that sound symbolic principles are operative in Pokémon characters’ names; e.g., those characters with names that contain more voiced obstruents tend to be larger and heavier (Kawahara et al. 2018b). One question that arose from this line of research is whether other attributes of Pokémon—specifically their types—show any tangible effects of sound symbolism. This question is related to the more general issue of what kinds of semantic attributes/dimensions can be signaled by sound symbolism. In answer to this question, Hosokawa et al. (2018) showed that the dark type characters are more likely to contain voiced stops and less likely to contain labial consonants in their names than the fairy type characters. The current judgment experiment shows that these associations are productive. Moreover, the effect sizes of sound symbolism were not correlated with each participant’s familiarity with Pokémon, suggesting that the sound symbolic knowledge is more abstract than what can be gleaned from the Pokémon lexicon.