colorsOfVowels: 133 (French) participants associated 6 colors to 6 vowels...

In HerveAbdi/data4PCCAR: Some data sets and R-functions for PCA and CA to accompany Abdi & Beaton (to appear, 2023) Principal Component and Correspondence Analysis with R

133 (French) participants associated 6 colors to 6 vowels (data from Chastaing, 1961).

Description

colorsOfVowels 133 French participants (106 with synesthesia and 27 without synesthesia) associated 6 colors to 6 vowels (data from Chastaing, 1961).

Usage

data("colorsOfVowels")

Format

A list containing 5 objects:

1. CT: a 6 vowels by 6 colors (pseudo) contingency table storing the responses of all 133 participants;

2. CT.noSynesthesia: a 6 vowels by 6 colors (pseudo) contingency table storing the responses of the 27 non synesthesia participants;

3. CT.Synesthesia: a 6 vowels by 6 colors (pseudo) contingency table storing the responses of the 106 synesthesia participants;

4. vowelsDescription a data frame describing the vowels (from their place of articulation as anterior or posterior); and

5. colorsDescription a data frame giving the R-color code for the colors. @keywords datasets data4PCCAR @author Maxime Chastaing and Hervé Abdi @references The data reported here were obtained from Tables 1 and 2 from Chastaing, M (1961). des sons et des couleurs. Vie et Language, 112, 358-365.

Details

The participants were asked if they had previously spontaneously associated a color to a vowel. The 106 participants who responded "Yes" are called with synesthesia and the 27 participants who responded "No" are called with without synesthesia.

The question asked to the participants was: “Here are six colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, and violet. What vowel do you think match each color?". So, the color are the stimuli (i.e., the independent variable) and the vowels are the responses (i.e., the dependent variable).

The data were obtained by concatenation of the data from Tables 1 and 2 of Chastaing (1961). The vowels correspond to the following sound(s)

1. i as in pretty,

2. y the French "u"-sound as in tutu,

3. e this column concatenate all the accented e-sounds in French such as é, è and ê (e.g., as in may),

4. a like Papa,

5. o the o and ô sounds, and

6. u the "ou" sound (like in you).

HerveAbdi/data4PCCAR documentation built on Sept. 11, 2022, 4:19 p.m.