GROUNDED AUDITORY PERCEPTION AND TINNITUS DISTRESS: A PRELIMINARY N=1 CASE OBSERVATION FRAMED BY ODAM TILI (HUMAN LANGUAGE) THEORY

Abstract

Background: Tinnitus management increasingly recognizes the role of attention, multisensory integration, and meaning-making under degraded auditory input. Current sound therapies rely largely on acoustically arbitrary signals (white/pink noise). The Odam Tili (OT) Theory proposes that human sound-meaning mapping is non-arbitrary and somatically grounded, with distinct phono-signo-semantic codes (e.g., T/Ch for abrupt branching/breaking, S/Sh for continuous flow, Z for vibratory vitality).