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Mimological Reveries? Disconfirming the Hypothesis of Phono-Emotional Iconicity in Poetry

The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analy...

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Autores principales: Kraxenberger, Maria, Menninghaus, Winfried
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27895614
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01779
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description The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) and the perception of tonal contrast as reflected in the attribution of phenomenological sound qualia (bright vs. dark). However, we could not confirm any of the previous hypotheses and findings regarding either a connection between the frequencies of occurrence of specific vowel classes and the perception of tonal contrast, or a relation between the frequencies of occurrence of consonant classes and emotional classification.
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spelling pubmed-51099342016-11-28 Mimological Reveries? Disconfirming the Hypothesis of Phono-Emotional Iconicity in Poetry Kraxenberger, Maria Menninghaus, Winfried Front Psychol Psychology The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) and the perception of tonal contrast as reflected in the attribution of phenomenological sound qualia (bright vs. dark). However, we could not confirm any of the previous hypotheses and findings regarding either a connection between the frequencies of occurrence of specific vowel classes and the perception of tonal contrast, or a relation between the frequencies of occurrence of consonant classes and emotional classification. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5109934/ /pubmed/27895614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01779 Text en Copyright © 2016 Kraxenberger and Menninghaus. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_sort mimological reveries? disconfirming the hypothesis of phono-emotional iconicity in poetry
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109934/
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