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‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept [PDF]

Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2019
This chapter makes the case for ‘ideophone’ as a comparative concept: a notion that captures a recurrent typological pattern and provides a template for understanding language-specific phenomena that prove similar. It revises an earlier definition to account for the observation that ideophones typically form an open lexical class, and uses insights ...
Mark Dingemanse, Dingemanse Mark
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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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The Ideophone in Siswati

Forum for Linguistic Studies
South Africa is a multilingual country wherein 12 languages are official, including Siswati. As in other Bantu languages, the ideophone is a unique part of speech in Siswati that is predominantly used by language users in daily conversations for various communicative purposes.
Muzi Matfunjwa, Khulisile Judith Nkuna
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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 illocutionary values of some literary interjections and their uses in telephone text messages [PDF]

Uirtus
Every utterance consists of accompanying an illocutionary act; speech act theorists will say that language is a form of intentional behavior. It is therefore useful for the speaker to reassure himself that the message he intends to convey is being ...
Amba Victorine Drabo
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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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Corrélés sémantiques de l’alternance vocalique dans les idéophones du turc

Signifiances (Signifying), 2020
Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser l’alternance vocalique des idéophones du turc (Harrison 2004, Ido 2011, Karahan 2008), en étudiant l’alternance sémantique qui y est associée. La méthodologie adoptée afin de démontrer la corrélation entre les deux
Nezihe Zeybek
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