DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmasymbolic magnitude value
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1929)
TitoloA Study in Phonetic Symbolism
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The main object of the study is to ascertain if there tends to be a feeling of the symbolic magnitude value of certain differences in vowels and consonants, regardless of the particular associations due to the presence of these vowels and consonants in meaningful words in the language of the speaker. The results so far obtained seem to go far in demonstrating the reality of such feelings [...]
- Sapir (1929), Pag. 62