AAAI 2026technical0 citations
Do Language Models Associate Sound with Meaning? A Multimodal Study of Sound Symbolism
Jinhong Jeong, Sunghyun Lee, Jaeyoung Lee, Seonah Han, Youngjae Yu
Abstract
Sound symbolism is a linguistic concept that refers to non-arbitrary associations between phonetic forms and their meanings. We suggest that this can be a compelling probe into how Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) interpret auditory information in human languages. We investigate MLLMs
BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2026_dolanguagemodels,
title = {Do Language Models Associate Sound with Meaning? A Multimodal Study of Sound Symbolism},
author = {Jinhong Jeong and Sunghyun Lee and Jaeyoung Lee and Seonah Han and Youngjae Yu},
booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
year = {2026}
}