I’m guessing it’s to do with the perturbed waveform. Someone should do a followup study to see whether any other sounds with similar characteristics(i.e. an idling car engine, a TR-808 drum machine handclap) would have similar associations.
i want to know what "jagged" means here. rolled Rs are too soft to form the "jagged" characteristic i imagine from a T sound. i see a rolled R as more of a rectified sine wave, half-rounded.
then again if the other line was completely flat...
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I always wondered if the Bouba/Kiki effect was reflected in the shape of the associated letters, or if it was just a coincidence.
I can’t think of any writing systems that associate an “r” sound with a jagged-line character, though.
jendrik@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
The bouba-kiki-effect has been observed in languages without writing systems
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Yeah, I was assuming any influence would go the other way (i.e., people make letters that remind them of the sounds).
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 6 pts · 1y
I’m guessing it’s to do with the perturbed waveform. Someone should do a followup study to see whether any other sounds with similar characteristics(i.e. an idling car engine, a TR-808 drum machine handclap) would have similar associations.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
Deebster@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y
I'd never heard of this language - Palikúr is an indigenous South American language spoken in Brazil and French Guiana (only 1500 speakers).
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 1y
i want to know what "jagged" means here. rolled Rs are too soft to form the "jagged" characteristic i imagine from a T sound. i see a rolled R as more of a rectified sine wave, half-rounded.
then again if the other line was completely flat...
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
lime@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 1y
yeah see, that's not the line i would draw for what it *feels* like.