Abstract:

Brand name is significant brand equity. It plays a vital role in delivering brand value, building brand image and highlighting brand characteristics. Previous research found that the semantic and phonetic features of a brand name would influence consumers’ perception and preference. From the perspective of baby schema, we examine the effect of repeated two-syllable brand name on consumers’ brand perception (physical perception and psychological perception) and consumers’ attitude, and also verify the mechanism and boundary of the effect. More specific expositions are as follows: (1) Examining the effect and mechanism of repeated two-syllable brand name on consumers’ physical perception, psychological perception and attitude; (2) Verifying the moderating effect of the internal phonetic feature and the external cuing feature between the repeated two-syllable brand name and consumers’ perception; (3) Verifying the moderating effect of product type and consumers’ feature between the repeated two-syllable brand name and consumers’ attitude.

Key words: repeated two-syllable, brand name, baby schema