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sound symbolism: Meaning and Definition of

sound' sym"bolism

Pronunciation: [key]
— Ling. Ling.
  1. a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
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