Robin Vallery
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robin Vallery is involved.
Article
2021 The sound of taboo: Exploring a sound-meaning association in swear words of English and French Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language, Keller, Melanie, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber (eds.), pp. 87–137 | Article
Swear words of English and French, both real and fictional ones, significantly tend to contain the least sonorous consonants, compared to the rest of the lexicon. What can explain the overrepresentation of such sounds among swear words? This might be a case of sound symbolism, when sounds are… read more