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Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul

Natural language & linguistic theory
All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations. In the first alternation, every tone-bearing unit (TBU) of the ideophone surfaces with a mid tone.
S. Akinbo, Tongpan Rabo Fwangwar
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Thematisation of Wapan Ideophones

Journal of Language and Literature
This study uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as its theoretical framework to investigate the thematisation of Wapan ideophones. Thirty (30) were purposely collected and analysed using descriptive qualitative methodology, both gathered through ...
Lovely Waseku Yusuf
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Insectophones in the English phonosemantic system

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017
The article is devoted the types of iconic lexis, the term insectophone is introduced and its place in the English phonosemantic system is defined.
V V Oschepkova, E S Razheva
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Ideophonic verb compounds in Archi

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Archi is a one-village language (1,000 speakers) belonging to the Lezgic branch of East Caucasian. It has a large and productive class of compound verbs combining a light verb and ‘coverbs’ of nominal, adjectival, verbal or unknown origin.
Gilles Authier
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Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci, 2023
Sasaki K, Kadowaki S, Iwasaki J, Pijanowska M, Okamoto H.   +4 more
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Cognitive Linguistics and Communication

Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association
Professionals dealing with communication and its disorders should acquaint themselves with the concepts and methods of cognitive linguistics because it permits viewing language as a multimodal communication system.
Duggirala Vasanta
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Sound-Action Symbolism. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Vainio L, Vainio M.
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Yakpo K.
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Language evolution: examining the link between cross-modality and aggression through the lens of disorders. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Benítez-Burraco A, Progovac L.
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Hausa ideophones - language standard and practice

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1989
It is commonly thought that African languages are underdeveloped, meager, of little precision in expressing thoughts and that modernizing their vocabulary means only enriching and complementing them with new items.
Anna Pająk
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