| dc.description.abstract | The aim of the following paper is to prove the existence of the connection
between sound (phoneme) and meaning. The hypothesis is supported by
Ramachandran and Hubbard’s experiment on “bouba“ and “kiki“ (2001) and the
scientific research in the field of synesthesia, which probably had played an
important role in the evolution of the language. There are two studies included,
in which 253 people have participated – the first one is the already popular
psycholinguistic experiment on “bouba“ and “kiki“ conducted in Bulgaria, the
second one is by the author – the aim of the task is to connect intuitively four
words (from not that much popular languages) with their translation in
Bulgarian. There is an analysis on a research by the author on lexemes from
different languages which have common or similar word formation patterns. The
hypothesis about the connection between sound and meaning is being proved by
examples in psychology, physics, biology and neuropsychology. Of course, not
all words have common or similar word formation patterns, the aim is to depict
that non-arbitrary words could be more than it has been presumed. | en_US |
