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The first is Dutch historian Johan Huizinga's "Homo Ludens," from 1938, which traces play systems through linguistics, epistemology, art and law.
Whilst poring through linguistics and anthropology texts, they uncovered research on the bouba/kiki effect— a sound visualization phenomenon that revealed that jagged shapes were typically referred to as "kiki," while curvy, rounded shapes were "bouba"— and also readings on sound symbolism.
Other semantic webs are generated through linguistics approaches [5].
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These similarities are hardly surprising since both approaches have roots in Prague school linguistics, especially through connections with Roman Jakobson.
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