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LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/00238309231202944
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Language attitude; phonaesthetics; sound symbolism; constructed languages
This study investigates the relationship between the perception of fictional languages and their sound structure. The results show that Klingon and Dothraki, two fictional languages, are rated as more unpleasant, evil, and aggressive, compared to the Elvish languages, Sindarin and Quenya. This rating difference can be predicted by certain characteristics of the sound structure.
Constructed languages, frequently invented to support world-building in fantasy and science fiction genres, are often intended to sound similar to the characteristics of the people who speak them. The aims of this study are (1) to investigate whether some fictional languages, such as Orkish whose speakers are portrayed as villainous, are rated more negatively by listeners than, for example, the Elvish languages, even when they are all produced without emotional involvement in the voice; and (2) to investigate whether the rating results can be related to the sound structure of the languages under investigation. An online rating experiment with three 7-point semantic differential scales was conducted, in which three sentences from each of 12 fictional languages (Neo-Orkish, Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul, Adunaic, Klingon, Vulcan, Atlantean, Dothraki, Na'vi, Kesh, (sic)ui(sic)uid) were rated, spoken by a female and a male speaker. The results from 129 participants indicate that Klingon and Dothraki do indeed sound more unpleasant, evil, and aggressive than the Elvish languages Sindarin and Quenya. Furthermore, this difference in rating is predicted by certain characteristics of the sound structure, such as the percentage of non-German sounds and the percentage of voicing. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to theories of language attitude.
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