Kobe University, Department of Humanities, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501 Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Dec;113(3):929-40. doi: 10.2466/15.21.28.PMS.113.6.929-940.
The present study examines implicit phonetic symbolism which posits that arbitrary linguistic sound is related to certain aspects of characteristics of other modalities, such as color, touch, or emotion. In consonant discrimination and lightness discrimination using Garner's speeded classification paradigm, spoken sounds (voiced/voiceless consonants) and lightness of visual stimuli (black/white squares) were systematically varied to assess cross-modal interactions. Congruent audio-visual pairs (voiced consonants and black, and between voiceless consonants and white) facilitated consonant discrimination. In lightness discrimination, no congruent facilitation or congruence effect was observed. These results indicated that cross-modal interactions in implicit phonetic symbolism can be found in correlations between linguistic spoken sounds and visual lightness.
本研究考察了内隐语音象征主义，该理论假设任意语言的声音与其他模态（如颜色、触觉或情感）的某些特征有关。在使用加纳的加速分类范式进行的辅音辨别和明度辨别实验中，系统地改变了语音（浊音/清音辅音）和视觉刺激的明度（黑/白方块），以评估跨模态相互作用。一致的视听对（浊音辅音和黑色，清音辅音和白色）促进了辅音辨别。在明度辨别中，没有发现一致的促进或一致的效果。这些结果表明，在语音象征主义的内隐语音中，跨模态相互作用可以在语言语音和视觉明度之间的相关性中找到。
