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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsAmharic (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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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound–meaning integration in the left amygdala
Human Brain Mapping, Volume 40, Issue 18, Page 5289-5300, December 15, 2019., 2019 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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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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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions
Language and CognitionJapanese 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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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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Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value" [PDF]
, 2009 Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them.
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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 +2 more
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Ideofoni. Una "nuova" categoria grammaticale [PDF]
, 2016 The goal of this work is to investigate the peculiarity of ideophones, an universal linguistic category that \u201cseems to occupy a shadowy world of unofficial linguistic inquiry\u201d (Nuckolls 2001: 132); this is particularly true for the Western ...
Marina Castagneto, Diego Sidraschi
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Word formation in contemporary Liangmai: A morphological study [PDF]
, 2019 This paper attempts to discuss the different processes of word formation in contemporary Liangmai, a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language of the Kuki-Chin-Naga sub group (Bradley 1997).
Daimai, Kailadbou
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