bouba-kiki

So then the mystery would be why other primates do not appear to show the bouba-kiki effect...

The handful of tenuous common threads like the bouba-kiki effect don't change the overall picture that much.

The previous language/computer training in the monkeys might have interfered with a more low-level/intuitive bouba-kiki effect.

It shows that bouba-kiki is not sufficient, but it doesn't show that it is not necessary.

The finding seems to be that the bouba-kiki effect is not specific to humans and does not depend on experience.

One of my favourite nerdy jokes is that the Fourier transform is a bouba-kiki transform.

Is the point just that, if other species also have the bouba-kiki effect but do not have language, the bouba-kiki effect probably doesn't play as important a role as we thought?

So the bouba-kiki effect in animals shouldn't be terribly surprising.

This seems to be related to the bouba-kiki [2] effect.

It's also super cool because the bouba-kiki effect framing was chosen due to methodological convenience for linguists and cultural anthropologists and their experimental bounds, not neuroscientists or signal processing folks.

Because I would expect anyone studying sound symbolism to find the bouba-kiki effect extremely important which is probably why it's such a widely cited study, also inside linguistics.

Some of the research, including this paper, is trying to get at the question of whether a species' sensitivity to the bouba-kiki effect might be at the root of language or not.