Why Ice Cream Sounds Fat and Crackers Sound Skinny

Interesting. Given the questions:<p><pre><code> Which brand of laptop seems bigger, Detal or Dutal? Which brand of vacuum cleaner seems heavier, Keffi or Kuffi? Which brand of ketchup seems thicker, Nellen or Nullen? </code></pre> The first question may have affected the answers to the others. &quot;Dutal&quot; may trigger an association chain &quot;Duty&quot; -&gt; &quot;Heavy Duty&quot; -&gt; &quot;Large&quot;, and then naturally all the other answers should be consistent with that one. Is there a mechanism scientists use to defend against such a &quot;snowballing&quot; effect?

I wonder how much pronunciation affects the results. Given their questions:<p><pre><code> Which brand of laptop seems bigger, Detal or Dutal? Which brand of vacuum cleaner seems heavier, Keffi or Kuffi? Which brand of ketchup seems thicker, Nellen or Nullen? </code></pre> In British English I only chose the &#x27;u&#x27; for the second question (the first by association - Detal = metal). How would US Americans pronounce these?

Hmmm, I don&#x27;t think I saw any other languages besides Spanish and English, is this really a universal effect across languages?<p>I am especially curious because I am inclined to believe that certain sounds are not distributed the same in all languages. This could mean that either this theory is untested on a broader set of languages, or that the typical vernacular in a language tends to avoid a certain type of word more than other languages.

I actually have the opposite reaction in a way. When I hear ice cream in my head, I hear something like Julie Andrews saying it, and it sounds sweet and light. With cracker it has a thick American accent and sounds harsh and dense. I am from the US.

As an outsider, the uncited studies sound suspiciously like the sort of thing that is guaranteed to generate statistically significant values with enough iterations...

Does Frozen yogurt follow this logic? It seems like a harder sounding word might imply the health effects

Once I&#x27;ve found a paper studying the brand names and how to create new ones that feels right and communicates the image you want.