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Advances in the Cross-Linguistic Study of Ideophones [PDF]

, 2012
Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world’s languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich sensory meanings, and interactional uses related to experience and evidentiality.
Dingemanse, M., Mark Dingemanse
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
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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simazhi/chinese_ideophone_database: First release on Zenodo

, 2020
This is the first zenodo release of the Chinese Ideophone ...
Thomas Van Hoey
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 20-36, March 2024.
Abstract Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood.
Jason Danely
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Ideophone im Awetí [PDF]

, 2013
The dissertation describes the phenomenon of ideophones in Awetí, a Tupian language spoken in the Amazonian lowlands in Central Brazil. Ideophones are marked words in Awetí discourse which are performed rather than simply spoken and which depict salient ...
Reiter, Sabine
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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions

Language and Cognition
Japanese patients often describe their pain with ideophones (sound-symbolic, imitative words), such as biribiri ‘having a continuous electric shock’. However, some manuals for healthcare workers recommend avoiding using these words in their interactions ...
Kimi Akita
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English

World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.
Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing

Developmental Science, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing applesauce. In three experiments using different methods we asked whether the number of distinct senses linked with the semantic features of objects would impact word ...
Amanda H. Seidl, Michelle Indarjit, Arielle Borovsky   +2 more
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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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Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age

Frontiers in Language Sciences
Sound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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