Linguistic Sharpness: Sound Symbolism and the Hidden Language Geometry

If you were shown a jagged, star-like shape and a rounded, cloud-like blob, and asked to name one "e;Bouba"e; and the other "e;Kiki,"e; which would be which? Across cultures and languages, nearly everyone intuitively assigns "e;Kiki"e; to the sharp shape and "e;Bouba"e; to the round one. This seemingly trivial puzzle exposes a profound neurological secret about how we process the world. This boo...