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Auracher, Jan; Albers, Sabine; Zhai, Yuhui; Gareeva, Gulnara; Stavniychuk, Tetyana – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This article demonstrates the potential of sound iconicity for automatic text analysis. This study claims that--at least in poetic language--the ratio of plosive versus nasal sounds in a text predicts its emotional tone as it is perceived by readers; that is, poems that have a relatively high frequency of plosive sounds are more likely to express…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Poetry, Phonology, Phonemes