TY - T1 - Sound-Action Symbolism SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334695 T3 - A1 - Vainio, Lari; Vainio, Martti A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech. For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip, and front vowels are associated with forward-directed limb movements. The current review article presents a variety of such sound-action effects and proposes that they compose a category of sound symbolism that is based on grounding a conceptual knowledge of a referent in articulatory and manual action representations. In... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6161 Phonetics; 515 Psychology; sound symbolism; speech; action; grasping; prosody; gestures; PHONETIC SYMBOLISM; ARTICULATORY GESTURES; ACTION RECOGNITION; MANUAL GESTURE; VISUAL OBJECT; SPEECH; MOTOR; MAGNITUDE; ICONICITY; LANGUAGE N1 - PP - ER -