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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Guébie is an Eastern Kru language spoken by about 7000 people in the Gagnoa prefecture of Côte d’Ivoire. This paper provides an overview of the phonology of Guébie, including the complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts, CVCV/CCV alternations ...
Hannah Sande
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A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning
Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 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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Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 11, November 2021., 2021 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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, 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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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsIn 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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دلالة الصوت اللغوي في اللغة العربية
الأستاذ, 2019 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
Language and CognitionA 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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Folk definitions of ideophones
Field manual volume 13(pp. 24-29).Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics., 2010 Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory events, for example English hippety-hoppety ‘in a limping and hobbling manner’ or Siwu mukumuku ‘mouth movements of a toothless person eating’. They typically have special sound patterns and distinct grammatical properties.
Dingemanse, M.
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis 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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