Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages

Abstract Cross-modal integration between sound and texture is important to perception and action. Here we show this has repercussions for the structure of spoken languages. We present a new statistical universal linking speech with the evolutionarily ancient sense of touch. Words that express roughn...

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Main Authors: Bodo Winter, Márton Sóskuthy, Marcus Perlman, Mark Dingemanse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04311-7
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