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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Many experimental studies show that people tend to associate high front vowels with small size and low back vowels with large size
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(<i>e. g.</i> Shinohara and Kawahara 2010)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bauer’s </span>
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(1996)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> study, on the other hand, show that diminutive and augmentative affixes are not correlated with specific vowels, contrary to what one would expect
based on experimental studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This leads me to think that experimental and typological studies do not always predict each other. That is, the correlations demonstrated by experiments are not necessarily statistically
visible in natural languages, what is statistically significant in natural languages may not be demonstrable through experiments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What do you think about the predictability between experimental and typological studies? Can you think of any example where there is no predictability, like the case of Bauer (1996)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ian Joo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://ianjoo.academia.edu">http://ianjoo.academia.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bauer, Laurie. “No Phonetic Iconicity in Evaluative Morphology.”
<i>Studia Linguistica</i>, vol. 50, no. 2, 1996, pp. 189–206.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Shinohara, Kazuko, and Shigeto Kawahara. “A Cross-Linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size.”
<i>Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society</i>, vol. 36, 2010, pp. 396–410.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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