Department of Psychology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
Cogn Emot. 2022 Mar;36(2):230-239. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2021.1996336. Epub 2021 Nov 1.
Words whose consonant articulation locations move inward (from the front to the back of the mouth) are preferred over words with the opposite consonant articulation location direction, a phenomenon termed the in-out effect. Recently, an alternative explanation for the in-out effect has been proposed based on position-weighted consonant preferences instead of articulation location movement preferences. However, this explanation has only been tested with word fragments. In two experiments, we tested these explanations using both, word fragment and pseudo-word stimuli. For word fragments, preferences could be explained by position-weighted consonant preferences, while, for pseudo-words, stimuli containing articulation location movement were evaluated more favourably than stimuli not containing articulation location movement. Thus, the in-out effect for word stimuli depends on movement of articulation locations. This finding demonstrates that a word's sound symbolic meaning cannot always be explained by its individual letters but can depend on letter sequences.
其辅音发音位置向口腔内部（从前向后）移动的词比具有相反辅音发音位置方向的词更受欢迎，这种现象被称为“内-外效应”。最近，基于位置加权辅音偏好而不是发音位置移动偏好，提出了一种内-外效应的替代解释。然而，这种解释仅在词片段上进行了测试。在两项实验中，我们使用词片段和伪词刺激物来测试这些解释。对于词片段，可以用位置加权辅音偏好来解释偏好，而对于伪词，包含发音位置移动的刺激物比不包含发音位置移动的刺激物评价更高。因此，词刺激的内-外效应取决于发音位置的移动。这一发现表明，一个词的声音象征意义不能总是用它的单个字母来解释，而是可以取决于字母序列。
