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  • Most people will say quite naturally that the "bouba" sound names the smoother, rounder shape and the "kiki" sound the sharper, more jagged one.

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

  • Most people will say quite naturally that the "bouba" sound names the smoother, rounder shape and the "kiki" sound the sharper, more jagged one.

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

  • The taste of words (like “kiki” and “bouba”, pictured).

    June « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

  • The taste of words (like “kiki” and “bouba”, pictured).

    Link love: language (4) 2009

  • For example, which of these two shapes do you think is called “bouba” and which is called “kiki?”

    Neurologica Blog - Are We All Synesthetes? William Harryman 2009

  • Most people will say the purple shape is bouba and the orange shape kiki.

    Neurologica Blog - Are We All Synesthetes? William Harryman 2009

  • She used the bouba / kiki effect, a psychology test in which subjects overwhelmingly call a curvy shape “bouba†and a jagged shape “kiki†when asked to match these words with their corresponding shapes.

    Yale Daily News: Latest Issue 2008

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