This observation can be extended to the role sound plays in a song. Anatenda Maajabu. The information process between two interlocutors works as follows: the message transmitted by the speaker is monitored against the context of the hearer. Context is thus some kind of encyclopedia about the world which contains the values and norms of a society, personal belief systems, and cultural norms; in short, it is all the knowledge that the communicators will have stored in their minds at the time they enter a conversation qtd in Schroeder, see also Blakemore, , and qtd in Schroeder, Gutt, 27 for more on this notion. They suggest that the sound frequency of vowels is the critical factor in judgments of phonetic symbolism qtd.
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