Sound symbolism in Chinese children's literature.

5.3.3 Character name-size subset There were no remarkably different distributions of phonemes or tones between large animal names and small animal names according to the I size i dataset (all I p- i values >0.05). Comparing the pattern of gender-sound association in fictional character names in children's books with that found by [113] in real human Chinese names showed that, in both studies, female names contained more nasals and fricatives than occlusives. 5.3.2 Character name-gender subset The iconic association between phonemes and gender was demonstrated by using nasal and fricative consonants in human character names (Figure 5). Human names showed preference in using rising tones compared to animal and monster names. 5.3.4 Character name-personality traits subset Positive and negative personality of characters influenced phoneme and tone choices in their names (Figure 6). [Extracted from the article]