Regardless of your cultural background, your personal experiences, or your mother tongue, you will almost certainly associate the nonsense word "kiki" with a spiky, jagged shape, while "bouba" seems ...

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Researchers have conducted an experiment on 900 people which shows intercultural connections between 25 different languages. This could be a breakthrough in the fields of linguistics and philology.

Take a look at the picture and honestly tell me which shape you would match to the word ‘bouba’ and which you would match to the word ‘kiki’. If you associated ‘bouba’ with the rounded shape and ‘kiki ...

TikTok is where unheard-of terms go viral, and now, a linguistics concept is taking over the app: sound symbolism, which refers to a connection between sound and meaning. The bouba-kiki effect is one ...

When there is conflict between what one sense communicates and what another does, we become confused, which can manifest as ...