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Language is more abstract than you think, or, why aren't languages more iconic? by Lupyan, Gary, Winter, Bodo

“…How abstract is language? We show that abstractness pervades every corner of language, going far beyond the usual examples of freedom and justice. In the light…”
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Vision dominates in perceptual language: English sensory vocabulary is optimized for usage by Winter, Bodo, Perlman, Marcus, Majid, Asifa

“…Researchers have suggested that the vocabularies of languages are oriented towards the communicative needs of language users. Here, we provide evidence…”
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Multimodality matters in numerical communication by Winter, Bodo, Marghetis, Tyler

“…Modern society depends on numerical information, which must be communicated accurately and effectively. Numerical communication is accomplished in different…”
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Size sound symbolism in the English lexicon by Winter, Bodo, Perlman, Marcus

“…Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are associated with size, especially high front vowels with ‘small’ and low back…”
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'Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive by Woodin, Greg, Winter, Bodo, Perlman, Marcus, Littlemore, Jeannette, Matlock, Teenie

“…We report a large-scale, quantitative investigation of manual gestures that speakers perform when speaking metaphorically about numerical quantities. We used…”
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Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages by Winter, Bodo, Sóskuthy, Márton, Perlman, Marcus, Dingemanse, Mark

“…Cross-modal integration between sound and texture is important to perception and action. Here we show this has repercussions for the structure of spoken…”
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Metaphor and the Philosophical Implications of Embodied Mathematics by Winter, Bodo, Yoshimi, Jeff

“…Embodied approaches to cognition see abstract thought and language as grounded in interactions between mind, body, and world. A particularly important…”
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Placing Abstract Concepts in Space: Quantity, Time and Emotional Valence by Woodin, Greg, Winter, Bodo

“…Research has shown that abstract concepts are often conceptualized along horizontal and vertical axes. However, there are mixed results concerning which axis…”
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Iconicity in the speech of children and adults by Perry, Lynn K., Perlman, Marcus, Winter, Bodo, Massaro, Dominic W., Lupyan, Gary

“…Iconicity – the correspondence between form and meaning – may help young children learn to use new words. Early‐learned words are higher in iconicity than…”
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The sound of soft alcohol: Crossmodal associations between interjections and liquor by Winter, Bodo, Pérez-Sobrino, Paula, Brown, Lucien

“…An increasing number of studies reveal crossmodal correspondences between speech sounds and perceptual features such as shape and size. In this study, we show…”
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Viewing angle matters in British Sign Language processing by Watkins, Freya, Abdlkarim, Diar, Winter, Bodo, Thompson, Robin L.

“…The impact of adverse listening conditions on spoken language perception is well established, but the role of suboptimal viewing conditions on signed language…”
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Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena by Winter, Bodo, Oh, Grace Eunhae, Hübscher, Iris, Idemaru, Kaori, Brown, Lucien, Prieto, Pilar, Grawunder, Sven

“…The widely cited frequency code hypothesis attempts to explain a diverse range of communicative phenomena through the acoustic projection of body size. The set…”
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Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues by Brown, Lucien, Winter, Bodo, Idemaru, Kaori, Grawunder, Sven

“…•Korean and English listeners can perceive Korean honorific levels from phonetic cues.•Korean listeners performed with significantly higher accuracy than…”
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Tracing the Phonetic Space of Prosodic Focus Marking by Roessig, Simon, Winter, Bodo, Mücke, Doris

“…Focus is known to be expressed by a wide range of phonetic cues but only a few studies have explicitly compared different phonetic variables within the same…”
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Is It Polite to Hiss?: Nonverbal Sound Objects as Markers of (Im)politeness in Korean by Brown, Lucien, Kim, Hyunji, Winter, Bodo

“…This paper explores the politeness-related functions of an ingressive hissing-like sound that occurs frequently in Korean and which is typically transcribed as…”
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More Instructions Make Fewer Subtractions by Fischer, Martin H, Winter, Bodo, Felisatti, Arianna, Myachykov, Andriy, Mende, Melinda A, Shaki, Samuel

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Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures by Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Fuchs, Susanne, Draxler, Christoph, Asu, Eva Liina, Dediu, Dan, Hiovain, Katri, Kawahara, Shigeto, Koutalidis, Sofia, Krifka, Manfred, Lippus, Pärtel, Lupyan, Gary, Oh, Grace E., Paul, Jing, Petrone, Caterina, Ridouane, Rachid, Reiter, Sabine, Schümchen, Nathalie, Szalontai, Ádám, Ünal-Logacev, Özlem, Zeller, Jochen, Winter, Bodo, Perlman, Marcus

“…Linguistic communication requires speakers to mutually agree on the meanings of words, but how does such a system first get off the ground? One solution is to…”
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Abstract concepts and emotion: cross-linguistic evidence and arguments against affective embodiment by Winter, Bodo

“…How are abstract concepts such as 'freedom' and 'democracy' represented in the mind? One prominent proposal suggests that abstract concepts are grounded in…”
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Taste and smell words form an affectively loaded and emotionally flexible part of the English lexicon by Winter, Bodo

“…In brain and behaviour, gustation, and olfaction are closely linked to emotional processing. This paper shows that similarly, words associated with taste and…”
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What makes a word prominent? Predicting untrained German listeners’ perceptual judgments by Baumann, Stefan, Winter, Bodo

“…•Both prosodic and non-prosodic cues determine prominence perception.•All 17 variables tested were shown to affect prominence.•Pitch accent position and type…”
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