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Table 2. Pearson Correlations of Verbal Descriptors of Body Motion with takete-maluma and bouba-kiki.

	soft—hard	rounded—angular	jerky—fluent	fast—slow
soft—hard	-
soft—hard
rounded—angular	0.87^***	-
rounded—angular	[0.79,0.92]
jerky—fluent	-0.84^***	-0.88^***	-
jerky—fluent	[-0.90,-0.74]	[-0.93,-0.81]
fast—slow	-0.81^***	-0.70^***	0.76^***	-
fast—slow	[-0.88,-0.70]	[-0.81,-0.54]	[0.63,0.85]
takete–maluma	-0.85^***	-0.76^***	0.80^***	0.83^***
takete–maluma	[-0.91,-0.76]	[-0.85,-0.63]	[0.68,0.88]	[0.72,0.89]
bouba–kiki	0.69^***	0.72^***	-0.73^***	-0.63^***
bouba–kiki	[0.53,0.80]	[0.57,0.82]	[-0.83,-0.58]	[-0.77,-0.45]

*** p ≤ .001.

N = 60; Numbers in brackets are 95% confidence intervals.