Investigation of the acoustic characteristics of monster names in Monster Hunter.

Abstract

The phenomenon in which a sound itself evokes a certain image is called sound symbolism. There are many aspects of sound symbolism that have yet to be clarified. The aim of our study is to clarify the whole picture of sound symbolism. For this purpose, we collect a wide variety of examples of sound symbolism and attempt to discover their acoustic features. In this study, we employed the names of monsters in the Monster Hunter series as examples of sound symbolism, and investigated the acoustic features of the differences in the names of monsters according to their body size. Machine learning classification is used to investigate and verify the existence of sound symbolism.