Multidimensional Analysis of Onomatopoeia : A note to make sensory scale from words

Naoyuki Osaka · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1990

Onomatopoeic words from the clusters of talking, laughing, and crying were analyzed using multidimensional analysis. It was found that each of the word within the cluster could be located along the some dimension representing the psychological magnitude. Furthermore, a direct magnitude estimation scaling method was found to be valid to make sensory magnitude scale from onomatopoeic word stimuli.

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