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Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses. [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Sound-symbolism, or the direct link between sound and meaning, is typologically and behaviorally attested across languages. However, neuroimaging research has mostly focused on artificial non-words or individual segments, which do not represent sound ...
Gwilym eLockwood, Gwilym eLockwood, Jyrki eTuomainen   +2 more
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Ideophones [PDF]

, 2023
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 ...
Dingemanse, M.
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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics

Open Linguistics, 2022
The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ...
Karani Michael, Andrason Alexander
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
Wilding E, Winter B, Littlemore J, Perlman M.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance between the form and meaning of a sign. Compelling evidence from diverse areas of the cognitive sciences suggests that iconicity plays a pivotal role in the processing, memory, learning, and evolution of both spoken and signed language, indicating that iconicity is a general property of language ...
Iida H, Akita K.
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A Cross-Modal and Cross-lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 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.
de Varda AG, Strapparava C.
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Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify? [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be “played with” in iconic gradient ways by varying vowel length, pitch, or speed (e.g., “It's been a loooooooong day ...
Ferrara C, Lu JC, Goldin-Meadow S.
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique) [PDF]

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Based on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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Folk definitions of ideophones [PDF]

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’.
Dingemanse, M.
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An Autistic "Linguatype"? Neologisms, New Words, and New Insights. [PDF]

Autism Res
ABSTRACT In this commentary, we present new ideas about autistic neologisms. This essay has two primary goals. First, we argue that an autistic predilection to form neologisms generates intriguing new hypotheses about language in autism, including the possibility that a tendency to use neologisms could be a featural element of an autistic “linguatype” (
Zane E, Luyster RJ.
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