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A nice overview article is the following:<br>
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<div class="csl-entry">Sinnemäki, Kaius. 2014. Cognitive
processing, language typology, and variation. <i>Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science</i> 5(4).
477–487. doi:10.1002/wcs.1294.</div>
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The following is said in the abstract:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
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12.157000%, 12.549000%)">"Linguistic typological
preferences have often been linked to cognitive processing
preferences but often without recourse to typologically
relevant experiments on
cognitive processing. This article reviews experimental
work on the possible parallels between preferences in
cognitive processing and language typology. ... The
surveyed experimental evidence
shows that considerable support exists for many linguistic
universals to reflect preferences in cognitive processing"
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Universals may also have other sources, so if there is no
experimental confirmation, this may be because they do not reflect
processing preferences, but perhaps change preferences ("mutational
constraints").<br>
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But of course, lack of evidence from experiments does not mean that
there is no processing preference – it could be so weak that it
hasn't been detected yet. Conversely, lack of typological evidence
doesn't mean that there is no universal tendency – it could be so
weak that it hasn't been detected yet.<br>
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Best,<br>
Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.01.18 13:46, Claire Bowern wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">For some information about this in an Australian
context, see Haynie, Bowern, and LaPalombara (2014): <a
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href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092852">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092852</a>..
We found some support but not in every language we looked at.
<div>Claire</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 7:04 AM, JOO
Ian <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:il.y.en.a@outlook.com" target="_blank">il.y.en.a@outlook.com</a>></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Dear all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </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">.</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.</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.</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)?</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Ian Joo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ianjoo.academia.edu" target="_blank">http://ianjoo.academia.edu</a></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">References</span></b></p>
<p class="m_-765965932935744597MsoBibliography"><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.</span></p>
<p class="m_-765965932935744597MsoBibliography"><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.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
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