GLASGOW is the most beautiful sounding city name in the UK, according to a new study ...
Adelman argued in the paper that “emotional sound symbolism” – the idea that human languages signal emotions via individual phonemes – was present in the five languages studied: English, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, and German.
The academic claimed to have “hypothesized and demonstrated that phonemes that are uttered most rapidly tend to convey negativity rather than positivity”.Adelman wrote that “sound symbolism was perhaps best illustrated by [Wolfgang] Köhler : when shown a rounded object and an angular object, and asked which is ‘takete’ and which is ‘baluma’, the vast majority of people agree that the angular object should be called ‘takete’.
“In fact, phonemes systematically convey a range of physical properties such as size and shape … and more general syntactic categories such as nouns and verbs.”Premier Inn said its study had attributed a “valence figure to each phoneme included in each [city] name” to draw its conclusions. The firm said of its study: “It is no surprise that Glasgow lands firmly as the loveliest UK city name. Nestled along the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow is a city with a rich industrial heritage and vibrant cultural scene.
“In its early history, Glasgow was known as ‘Glaschu’ in Scottish Gaelic, which derived from the Gaelic words ‘Glas’ meaning ‘green’, and ‘chu’ meaning ‘hollow’, while various translations through the centuries have awarded the city the nickname ‘Dear Green Place’.”
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