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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound-meaning integration in the left amygdala. [PDF]
Hum Brain Mapp, 2019 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 ...
Aryani A, Hsu CT, Jacobs AM.
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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 ...
Jyrki Tuomainen
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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 ...
Michael Karani, Alexander Andrason
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The at-issue status of ideophones in German: An experimental approach
Glossa, 2022 Formal linguistics generally assumes that form-meaning relations in spoken language are arbitrary and not iconic. Ideophones, such as the English splish-splash have been considered exceptions to this rule of arbitrariness.
Kathryn Barnes +2 more
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Iconicity as Multimodal, Polysemiotic, and Plurifunctional [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences. However, when it comes to analysing and comparing iconicity across different
Gabrielle Hodge +2 more
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Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 This paper aims to establish connections between the following phenomena pertaining to Korean ideophonic vowel harmony: A set of vowel patterns classified (phonologically) as ‘harmonic,’ ‘neutral,’ and ‘disharmonic’; a set of ideophones classified ...
Nahyun Kwon
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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones
Glossa, 2018 Ideophones (also known as expressives, mimetics or onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages.
Mark Dingemanse
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Korean Mothers Attune the Frequency and Acoustic Saliency of Sound Symbolic Words to the Linguistic Maturity of Their Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The present study investigates Korean mothers’ use of sound symbolism, in particular expressive lengthening and ideophones, in their speech directed to their children. Specifically, we explore whether the frequency and acoustic saliency of sound symbolic
Jinyoung Jo, Eon-Suk Ko
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 The question of whether or not ideophones constitute a separate word class in a language has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. While Newman (1968), Courtenay (1976), Marivate (1985), Creissels (2001), Laughlin (2007), Beck (2008), among others, argue that ideophones in their languages of research form a subset of one of the ...
Kanu, Sullay Mohamed
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Les caractéristiques linguistiques des onomatopées et idéophones en gouro et en anglais: une étude contrastive [PDF]
Akofena, 2023 Résumé : L'onomatopée et l’idéophone, fabrications imitatives de mots à partir de sons, sont des phénomènes courants que l'on retrouve dans toutes les langues du monde.
Lou Yeri Constance MOMO & Kobenan Kra Florent YAO
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