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  1. (linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes.

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  • For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.
  • In contrast, writers of bucolic dialogues, like George Meriton, for instance, and lively song-writers like Robert Anderson in Cumberland, seem drawn to expressive lexis, marked by sound patterns of reduplication, alliteration and phonaesthesia.
  • Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner.
  • Those in (1.15) illustrate a weaker type of iconicity, generally known as phonaesthesia: the consonant cluster ‘fl’ seems to suggest quick movement, but it is not a direct representation of movement, or speed.

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes.

Which of the two shapes is bouba, and which one is kiki?