 | Rita Carter - 1998 - 232 pagini
...of coloured hearing' in his autobiography Speak, Memory: 'The long "ааа" of the English alphabet has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French "a" evokes polished ebon v . This black group [of sound] includes hard "g" (vulcanized rubber); and "r" ( a sooty rag being... | |
 | John E. Harrison - 2001 - 306 pagini
...while 1 imagine its outline. The long a of the English alphahet (and it is this alphahet I have in mind unless otherwise stated) has for me the tint of weathered...polished ebony. This black group also includes hard g( vulcanised rubher) and r (a sooty rag heing ripped). Oatmeal n, noodle-limp /, and the ivory-backed... | |
 | Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein - 2001 - 420 pagini
...letters of the alphabet, he experienced the sensation of color. "The long a of the English alphabet . . . has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French a evokes polished ebony. . . . The yellows comprise various es and fs, creamy d, bright-golden y, and u, whose alphabetical... | |
 | Arnold H. Modell - 2003 - 284 pagini
...of "colored hearing": "The long a of the English alphabet has for me the tint of weathered wood; the French a evokes polished ebony. This black group also...includes hard g (vulcanized rubber) and r (a sooty bag being ripped)." Nabokov's "colored hearing" undoubtedly contributed to his remarkable linguistic... | |
 | Lynn C. Robertson, Noam Sagiv - 2004 - 304 pagini
...was Vladimir Nabokov (18991977). In his autobiography, Speak Memory (1966), Nabokov tells us of his fine case of colored hearing. Perhaps "hearing" is...includes hard g (vulcanized rubber) and r (a sooty rag bag being ripped). Oatmeal n, noodle-limp 1, and the ivory-backed hand mirror of o take care of the... | |
 | InterLingua.com, Incorporated - 2006 - 435 pagini
...sees a color when he sounds out a letter of the alphabet: "The long a of the English alphabet . . . has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French...(vulcanized rubber) and r (a sooty rag being ripped)." What does this quotation indicate about Nabokov's experience of synesthesia? (1) Synesthetic responses... | |
 | Jeffrey Moore - 2007 - 328 pagini
...of my orally forming a given letter while I imagine its outline. The long rt of the English alphabet has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French...polished ebony. This black group also includes hard g (vulcanised rubber) and r (a sooty rag being ripped). Oatmeal 11, noodle-limp, and the ivory-backed... | |
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I present a fine case of colored hearing. Perhaps "hearing" is not quite accurate, since the color sensation seems to be produced by the very act of my orally forming a given letter while I imagine its outline. The long a of the English alphabet (and... 