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From the taste of food to the sound of words: experimental research on the phonetic symbolism of tastes and aromas

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This article provides an analytical review of recent experimental research on the phonetic symbolism of tastes and aromas, i.e. the tendency of the general population to associate certain phono-articulatory properties of the sounds of language with certain gustatory and olfactory properties of food. It then presents the very first results of a series of original experiments carried out by the authors on the phonetic symbolism of wine tastes.