[Lingtyp] Do experimental and typological studies predict each other?

[Claire Bowern]

For some information about this in an Australian context, see Haynie,
Bowern, and LaPalombara (2014):
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092852..
We found some support but not in every language we looked at.
Claire

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 7:04 AM, JOO Ian <il.y.en.a at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
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> Many experimental studies show that people tend to associate high front
> vowels with small size and low back vowels with large size (*e. g.*
> Shinohara and Kawahara 2010).
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> Bauer’s (1996) 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.
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> 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.
>
> 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)?
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> Sincerely,
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> Ian Joo
>
> http://ianjoo.academia.edu
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> *References*
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> Bauer, Laurie. “No Phonetic Iconicity in Evaluative Morphology.” *Studia
> Linguistica*, vol. 50, no. 2, 1996, pp. 189–206.
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> Shinohara, Kazuko, and Shigeto Kawahara. “A Cross-Linguistic Study of
> Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size.” *Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
> Linguistics Society*, vol. 36, 2010, pp. 396–410.
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