单词 | sound symbolism |
释义 | sound symbolismnoun Linguistics.a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny. Origin of sound symbolismFirst recorded in 1875–80 Words nearby sound symbolismsoundscape, sound shift, sound spectrogram, sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, soundtrack, sound truck, sound wave, Souness Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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