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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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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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Parallelism in Arandic Song-Poetry [PDF]

, 2017
The ceremonial song-poetry performed by Arandic people of central Australia is characterized by parallelism of sound, form and meaning in both auditory and visual modalities.
Turpin, Myfany
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What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words

Language and Cognition
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, Xiaoyu Yu, Tung-Le Pan, Youngah Do   +3 more
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Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech

, 2013
This article examines the relation between ideophones and gestures in a corpus of everyday discourse in Siwu, a richly ideophonic language spoken in Ghana.
Dingemanse, M.
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography, part 2 : lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga [PDF]

, 2018
This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency list directly within a ...
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Nabirye, Minah   +1 more
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
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, Aimée Lahaussois, Yvonne Treis   +2 more
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Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives) [PDF]

, 2019
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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Ideophone Integration and Expressiveness in Wao Terero [PDF]

, 2018
Ideophones, which “simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language,” have been claimed to be a universal category (Voeltz & Kilian-Hatz 2001:3); however, they are generally understudied and are often considered marginal to the linguistic
Fawcett, Alexia Zandra
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