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<p>This is a reminder email about our upcoming talk, now WITH abstract below.</p>
<p><strong>BEAUTY LIES IN THE EAR OF THE BEHOLDER. PHONAESTHETICS OF CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES IN A MULTILINGUAL PERSPECTIVE - </strong></p>
<p>talk by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Prof. Christine Mooshammer</strong></span>*, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">(* work performed together with: with Henrik Hornecker (Berlin), Dominique Bobeck (Leipzig), Qiang Xia (Stockholm), Alexander Kilpatrick (Aizu), Christoph Draxler (München))</span></span></p>
<p>We warmly invite you to participate and enjoy a complimentary cup of <strong>Punsch</strong> during / at the occasion of / after the Christmas Lecture. no registration required</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Time</strong></span>: Wed, 17.12. - at 16:45 <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Place</span></strong>: HS1, Linguistics Department, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, 1st floor.</p>
<div><em><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Constructed languages in fantasy and science fiction are often crafted to sound beautiful, harsh, evil or good — but how universal are these impressions? Building on earlier work showing that German listeners largely perceive conlangs as intended, even when spoken neutrally, we extend this question across native languages. In a large multilingual experiment, listeners from 14 typologically diverse language backgrounds rated 56 stimuli from 14 well-known conlangs on scales of pleasantness, goodness, and peacefulness. </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Our results reveal a divide between conlangs that exploit near-universal phonaesthetic cues (such as Klingon) and those whose effects depend strongly on listeners' native languages, offering new insights into the phonetic and phonological foundations of sound symbolism.</span></em></div>
<p>https://wsg.univie.ac.at/<br />susanne.reiterer@univie.ac.at</p>
<p>With thanks and best wishes,</p>
<p>We are also looking for <span style="font-size: 12pt;">participants</span> for short amusing language experiments - more info here: <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://linktr.ee/phonaesthetics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://linktr.ee/phonaesthetics</a> </span></p>
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<div class="v1v1v1v1pre">check this out: <a href="https://linktr.ee/phonaesthetics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://linktr.ee/phonaesthetics</a> <br /><br />Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Maria Reiterer<br />University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics,<br />Sensengasse 3A, 1090-Vienna, Austria, EU<br />Tel.: 0043-1-4277-44184<br /><a href="mailto:Susanne.Reiterer@univie.ac.at" rel="noreferrer">Susanne.Reiterer@univie.ac.at</a>; <br /><br /></div>
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