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What’s in a Japanese kawaii ‘cute’ name? A linguistic perspective by Kumagai, Gakuji

“…While the concept termed as kawaii is often translated into English as ‘cute’ or ‘pretty’, it has multiple connotations. It is one of the most significant…”
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Analysing spells in the Harry Potter series: Sound-symbolic effects of syllable lengths, voiced obstruents and low vowels by Kumagai, Gakuji

“…The current study is the first to attempt to perform a sound-symbolic analysis of the spells featured in the series. The present research analysed 171 spells…”
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The pluripotentiality of bilabial consonants: The images of softness and cuteness in Japanese and English by Kumagai, Gakuji

“…The current study experimentally examined whether labial consonants were sound-symbolically associated with the images of softness and cuteness in Japanese and…”
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Lyman’s Law can count only up to two by Kawahara, Shigeto, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…One long-standing question that is recurrently addressed in contemporary phonological studies is whether phonological systems can count beyond three. The…”
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Rendaku is not blocked by two nasal consonants: A reply to Kim (2022) by Kawahara, Shigeto, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Rendaku is a morphophonological process in Japanese, in which the first consonant of the second element of compounds becomes voiced (e.g. /ao-sora/ → [ao-zora]…”
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Sound Symbolic Patterns in Pokémon Names by Kawahara, Shigeto, Noto, Atsushi, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…This paper presents a case study of sound symbolism, cases in which certain sounds tend to be associated with particular meanings. We used the corpus of all…”
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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism by Kawahara, Shigeto, Godoy, Mahayana C., Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings, is receiving increasing attention in linguistics, psychology and related disciplines. One…”
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Accounting for the stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model by Kawahara, Shigeto, Katsuda, Hironori, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Sound symbolism refers to stochastic and systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has not received much serious attention in the…”
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Do Sibilants Fly? Evidence from a Sound Symbolic Pattern in Pokémon Names by Kawahara, Shigeto, Godoy, Mahayana C., Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Ancient writers, including Socrates and the Upanishads, argued that sibilants are associated with the notions of wind, air and sky. From modern perspectives,…”
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Sound symbolism in Brazilian Portuguese Pokémon names: Evidence for cross-linguistic similarities and differences by Godoy, Mahayana C., Gomes, André Lucas, Kumagai, Gakuji, Kawahara, Shigeto

“…Several studies in linguistics and related disciplines have been extensively exploring sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings…”
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The non-local nature of Lyman’s Law revisited by Kawahara, Shigeto, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Past studies (Vance, 1979; Kawahara, 2012) of rendaku, a morphonological alternation in Japanese, have produced conflicting results about the sensitivity of…”
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