Tuned to language: the influence of musicality on phonaesthetic judgments
Susanne Maria Reiterer
IntroductionAesthetic perception is a cross-modal phenomenon that integrates sensory, emotional, and cognitive processes. While traditionally focused on visual arts and music, recent research has extended this framework to phonaesthetics, which explores affective judgments of language sounds. This study investigates the intersection of musicality and phonaesthetic judgments, particularly focusing on the dimension of eros (eroticity) in language perception. Musicality, encompassing sensitivity to