phonetic symbolism

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(linguistics) The viewpoint that sounds themselves have meaning.

Japanese Meaning

音そのものが意味を持つという考え方

Researchers debated whether phonetic symbolism could explain why certain sounds evoke similar meanings across unrelated languages.

研究者たちは、音象徴（音自体が意味を担うという考え）が、無関係の言語間で特定の音が似た意味を引き起こす理由を説明できるかどうかを議論した。

Sense（1）

(linguistics) The viewpoint that sounds themselves have meaning.