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Persian Onomatopoeias: An Analysis Based On Iconicity [PDF]

زبان پژوهی, 2023
The study, identification, and explanation of the relationship between linguistic signs and their referents have been topics explored by thinkers in various fields, from philosophy to linguistics.
Banafsheh Mesgari, Raheleh Gandomkar
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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach

Languages, 2023
Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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An outline of Lulubo phonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 1987
This article outlines the phonology of Lulubo, a little known Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern Sudan. An account is given of the phonemic inventory (vowels, consonants, and tones), vowel harmony, syllable structure, special features of ...
Torben Andersen
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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics

Open Linguistics, 2022
The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ...
Karani Michael, Andrason Alexander
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The multi-modal representation of motion events in Awetí discourse

CogniTextes, 2015
Recent research focusing on the insights gestures may offer into the mental conceptualization of motion events suggests that a number of factors may influence the way motion events are gestured in different languages.
Sabine Reiter
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Ideophones

, 2023
Abstract Many of the world’s languages feature an open lexical class of ideophones, words whose marked forms and sensory meanings invite iconic associations. Ideophones (also known as mimetics or expressives) are well known from languages in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, where they often form a class on the same order of magnitude as ...
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Ideophones in Zulu

Lexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: The ideophone, a word class not unique to but highly characteristic of the Bantu languages, presents particular challenges in both monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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Aina Mārīte Urdze, Ideophone in Europa. Die Grammatik der lettischen Geräuschverben

Baltistica, 2011
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Dalia Kiseliūnaitė
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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LANGUAGE AND STYLE EXPERIMENTATIONS IN THOMAS MOFOLO’S CHAKA / RECHERCHES SUR LA LANGUE ET LE STYLE DANS LE ROMAN CHAKA DE THOMAS MOFOLO / EXPERIMENTĂRI ASUPRA LIMBII ŞI STILULUI ÎN ROMANUL CHAKA DE THOMAS MOFOLO [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2013
The ever central position of Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka has often been justified by the novel’s cultural and thematic contents. This paper rather links this long standing reputation of the narrative to the stylistic and linguistic experimentations initiated
Klohinlwele Koné
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