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In this experiment, we verified the sensory relatedness of onomatopoeic words that represent texture. The effect of the difference between Hiragana and Katakana or thography was investigated by asking 74 participants to evaluate onomatopoeic words written in Hiragana and Katakana. Participants were requested to evaluate the degree to which 69 onomatopoeic words that express texture were related to the five modalities (vision, olfaction, hearing, taste, and touch) on a 7-point scale. Among the 74 participants, 54 participants evaluated the words written in normal orthography. And 22 remaining participants evaluated the words writtenin reverse orthography. The results indicated, that the relatedness of echoic words to touch and hearing was high, and orthography did not influence the results. On the other hand, the modalities that were highly related to imitative wordswere significantly different according to orthography. That is, orthography effects differed between imitative words and echoic words.
