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A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning
Abstract The present paper addresses the study of non‐arbitrariness in language within a deep learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness of different forms of non‐arbitrary phonological patterns across a set of typologically distant languages.
Andrea Gregor de Varda +1 more
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Abstract Iterated language learning experiments that explore the emergence of linguistic structure in the laboratory vary considerably in methodological implementation, limiting the generalizability of findings. Most studies also restrict themselves to exploring the emergence of combinatorial and compositional structure in isolation.
Vera Kempe +4 more
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Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek
In Batek, both iconic and avoidant speech forms only have the desired effect when their sounds are at the same time like, and different to, their referents. This necessary coexistence of likeness and difference in particular speech forms resonates with the sought for coexistence of alterity and affinity in Batek interpersonal relationships.
Alice Rudge
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Food‐texture dimensions expressed by Japanese onomatopoeic words
Abstract This study examined perceptual dimensions of food texture using Japanese onomatopoeic words. Photographs of 56 foods were presented to the participants, and they reported onomatopoeic (mimetic) words suitable for the texture of the foods. The participants' responses were collated into a contingency table of photographs by onomatopoeic words ...
Mitsuhiko Hanada
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دلالة الصوت اللغوي في اللغة العربية
Phonaesthemes are a set of sound-inspired meanings in a language. They represent words, nouns, adjectives, or verbs whose general meaning is related. The present paper sheds light on this area by investigating phonaesthemes in Standard Arabic through a ...
Asst. Prof. Mohammed Nasser Abdulsada
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What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words
A well-known method of studying iconic words is through the collection of subjective ratings. We collected such ratings regarding familiarity, iconicity, imagery/imageability, concreteness, sensory experience rating (SER), valence and arousal for ...
Thomas Van Hoey +3 more
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault +2 more
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Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives) [PDF]
Ideophones, also termed mimetics or expressives, are marked words that depict sensory imagery. They are found in many of the world’s languages, and sizable lexical classes of ideophones are particularly well-documented in the languages of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Akita, K., Dingemanse, M.
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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound–meaning integration in the left amygdala
Abstract Recent studies have shown that a similarity between sound and meaning of a word (i.e., iconicity) can help more readily access the meaning of that word, but the neural mechanisms underlying this beneficial role of iconicity in semantic processing remain largely unknown.
Arash Aryani +2 more
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic
Amharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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