Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents [PDF]
Cognitive ScienceAbstract 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 ...
Kimi Akita
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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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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 +2 more
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Ideophones and Realia in a Santome/Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary
Languages, 2020 In this work, we discuss how Araujo & Hagemeijer’s Santome/Portuguese bilingual dictionary defines and describes ideophones and realia lemmata. We show that ideophones were listed individually along with their expression counterparts.
Gabriel Antunes DE ARAUJO
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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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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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A Comparative Study of Ideophones in Dagbani and Gurenԑ
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 Ideophones have been analysed in the linguistic literature as a class of words that depict sensory imagery; they are established in most natural languages, but particularly in African and Asian languages. They have gained popularity for their uniqueness
Samuel Awinkene Atintono +1 more
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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.
Cornelia Ebert +3 more
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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach
Languages, 2023 Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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