David M Sidhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Sidhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidhu |
| SIGNATURE | SIDHU D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0881-2009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Replicando o efeito da iconicidade em uma tarefa de decisão lexical
Iconic words are characterized by a sense of resemblance between their form and their meaning. The most common examples are onomatopoeias such as “cock-a-doodle-doo” or “woof-woof,” but recent research shows that speakers of various languages perceive a relationship between sound and meaning in various words of their language. This is the case for English words such as crunchy, zigzag or wiggle, whose sonority is perceived as mapping onto their m…
That sounds exciting! Emotional iconicity facilitates processing and recall
We characterize arousal sound symbolism by analyzing the phonemes that predict ratings of 5,457 nonwords on arousal. • English words whose sounds are congruent with their arousal (e.g., “shock”) are responded to faster than incongruent words. • We find some evidence that individual personality differences in the experience of emotion moderate these effects. • Using a mega study data set of 1,551 items we find that caongruent words are more likely…
The word “bed” looks like a bed
Iconicity refers to the sense of resemblance between aspects of a signal's form and aspects of its meaning. This has traditionally been studied in the sound of words in spoken language, and the visual and kinesthetic properties of signs in signed languages. Here I ask the novel question of whether iconicity can be perceived in the shapes of words in a phonographic script (i.e., one in which symbols code for sounds) by native speakers. I collected…
Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon
Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while phonemes like /k/ are associated with spikiness. In this paper I review the accumulating evidence that different instances of sound symbolism can be observed as patterns in real words in existing lexicons (e.g., /m/ occurring more frequently in words f…
Sounds of the future and past
We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total N = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and between the past and /θ/ and voiced stops (Experiment 2). This association was present not only among Eng…
Would you hire Liam over Kirk? Name sound symbolism and hiring
I don’t see what you’re saying
In contrast to the principle of arbitrariness, recent work has shown that language can iconically depict referents being talked about. One such example is the maluma/takete effect: an association between certain phonemes (e.g., those in maluma ) and round shapes, and other phonemes (e.g., those in takete and spiky shapes). An open question has been whether this association is crossmodal (arising from phonemes’ sound or kinesthetics) or unimodal (…
Higher order factors of sound symbolism
Sound symbolism refers to associations between certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and perceptual and/or semantic properties. Crucially, the different associations of a phoneme do not appear to be wholly independent. For instance, the phoneme /i/ is associated with sharpness, smallness and brightness. Previous work has shown that these properties are all related to one another (Walker et al., 2012). This suggests that higher order factors ma…
Heterogenous abstract concepts
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets
Iconic words imitate their meanings. Previous work has demonstrated that iconic words are more common in infants’ early speech, and in adults’ child-directed speech (e.g., Perry et al., 2015; 2018). This is consistent with the proposal that iconicity provides a benefit to word learning. Here we explored iconicity in four diverse language development datasets: a production corpus for infants and preschoolers (MacWhinney, 2000), comprehension data …
Sound symbolism shapes the English language
Perceiving happiness in an intergroup context
The present research comprises six experiments that investigated racial biases in the perception of positive emotional expressions. In an initial study, we demonstrated that White participants distinguished more in their happiness ratings of Duchenne ("true") and non-Duchenne ("false") smiles on White compared with Black faces (Experiment 1). In a subsequent study we replicated this effect using a different set of stimuli and non-Black participan…
An eye for the I
Human faces, and more specifically the eyes, play a crucial role in social and nonverbal communication because they signal valuable information about others. It is therefore surprising that few studies have investigated the impact of intergroup contexts and motivations on attention to the eyes of ingroup and outgroup members. Four experiments investigated differences in eye gaze to racial and novel ingroups using eye tracker technology. Whereas S…
An eye for the I
Human faces, and more specifically the eyes, play a crucial role in social and nonverbal communication because they signal valuable information about others. It is therefore surprising that few studies have investigated the impact of intergroup contexts and motivations on attention to the eyes of ingroup and outgroup members. Four experiments investigated differences in eye gaze to racial and novel ingroups using eye tracker technology. Whereas S…
Perceiving happiness in an intergroup context
The present research comprises six experiments that investigated racial biases in the perception of positive emotional expressions. In an initial study, we demonstrated that White participants distinguished more in their happiness ratings of Duchenne ("true") and non-Duchenne ("false") smiles on White compared with Black faces (Experiment 1). In a subsequent study we replicated this effect using a different set of stimuli and non-Black participan…
An eye for the I
Human faces, and more specifically the eyes, play a crucial role in social and nonverbal communication because they signal valuable information about others. It is therefore surprising that few studies have investigated the impact of intergroup contexts and motivations on attention to the eyes of ingroup and outgroup members. Four experiments investigated differences in eye gaze to racial and novel ingroups using eye tracker technology. Whereas S…
Perceiving happiness in an intergroup context
The present research comprises six experiments that investigated racial biases in the perception of positive emotional expressions. In an initial study, we demonstrated that White participants distinguished more in their happiness ratings of Duchenne ("true") and non-Duchenne ("false") smiles on White compared with Black faces (Experiment 1). In a subsequent study we replicated this effect using a different set of stimuli and non-Black participan…
Sound symbolism shapes the English language
Higher order factors of sound symbolism
Sound symbolism refers to associations between certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and perceptual and/or semantic properties. Crucially, the different associations of a phoneme do not appear to be wholly independent. For instance, the phoneme /i/ is associated with sharpness, smallness and brightness. Previous work has shown that these properties are all related to one another (Walker et al., 2012). This suggests that higher order factors ma…
Heterogenous abstract concepts
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets
Iconic words imitate their meanings. Previous work has demonstrated that iconic words are more common in infants’ early speech, and in adults’ child-directed speech (e.g., Perry et al., 2015; 2018). This is consistent with the proposal that iconicity provides a benefit to word learning. Here we explored iconicity in four diverse language development datasets: a production corpus for infants and preschoolers (MacWhinney, 2000), comprehension data …
I don’t see what you’re saying
In contrast to the principle of arbitrariness, recent work has shown that language can iconically depict referents being talked about. One such example is the maluma/takete effect: an association between certain phonemes (e.g., those in maluma ) and round shapes, and other phonemes (e.g., those in takete and spiky shapes). An open question has been whether this association is crossmodal (arising from phonemes’ sound or kinesthetics) or unimodal (…
Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon
Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while phonemes like /k/ are associated with spikiness. In this paper I review the accumulating evidence that different instances of sound symbolism can be observed as patterns in real words in existing lexicons (e.g., /m/ occurring more frequently in words f…
Sounds of the future and past
We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total N = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and between the past and /θ/ and voiced stops (Experiment 2). This association was present not only among Eng…
Would you hire Liam over Kirk? Name sound symbolism and hiring
Replicando o efeito da iconicidade em uma tarefa de decisão lexical
Iconic words are characterized by a sense of resemblance between their form and their meaning. The most common examples are onomatopoeias such as “cock-a-doodle-doo” or “woof-woof,” but recent research shows that speakers of various languages perceive a relationship between sound and meaning in various words of their language. This is the case for English words such as crunchy, zigzag or wiggle, whose sonority is perceived as mapping onto their m…
That sounds exciting! Emotional iconicity facilitates processing and recall
We characterize arousal sound symbolism by analyzing the phonemes that predict ratings of 5,457 nonwords on arousal. • English words whose sounds are congruent with their arousal (e.g., “shock”) are responded to faster than incongruent words. • We find some evidence that individual personality differences in the experience of emotion moderate these effects. • Using a mega study data set of 1,551 items we find that caongruent words are more likely…
The word “bed” looks like a bed
Iconicity refers to the sense of resemblance between aspects of a signal's form and aspects of its meaning. This has traditionally been studied in the sound of words in spoken language, and the visual and kinesthetic properties of signs in signed languages. Here I ask the novel question of whether iconicity can be perceived in the shapes of words in a phonographic script (i.e., one in which symbols code for sounds) by native speakers. I collected…
Psychology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (8 works) · Iconicity (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Acoustics (3 works)