Naho Atsumi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Naho Atsumi is involved.

Article

Uno, Ryoko, Kazuko Shinohara, Yuta Hosokawa, Naho Atsumi, Kumagai Gakuji and Shigeto Kawahara 2020 What’s in a villain’s name? Sound symbolic values of voiced obstruents and bilabial consonants Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 428–457 | Article

This paper reports two case studies of sound symbolism using the naturalistic name corpora of characters from Disney and Pokémon. Building upon previous studies of sound symbolism, we tested two hypotheses: (1) voiced obstruents, which are generally associated with negative images, are favored… read more