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The linguistic integration of Japanese ideophones and its typological implications

, 2017
This article proposes that two linguistic systems (that is, two languages or registers) with different degrees of morphosyntactic integration of ideophones may apply the same restrictions on ideophones in different ways.
Kimi Akita
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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 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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Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age

Frontiers in Language Sciences
Sound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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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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Sound-Action Symbolism. [PDF]

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

Front Psychol, 2021
Yakpo K.
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The Phonology of Amharic Ideophones [PDF]

The paper aims at describing the phonology of Amharic ideophones. It shows some peculiar phonological and phonetic features of ideophones in the language. The data used in this study are collected from fieldwork.
Mengistu, Girma, Mulugeta, Teferi, Yimam, Baye   +2 more
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Ideophones in Swahili: a preliminary survey

, 2014
Ideophones in African languages were first noticed by Harry Thurston Peck (1856–1914) in 1886. He apparently had access to some dictionaries of West African languages in the 1880’s and could not resist the temptation to work on them.
Baldi, Sergio, Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
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