Mapping language to the world: the role of iconicity in the sign language input [PDF]
, 2017 Most research on the mechanisms underlying referential mapping has assumed that learning occurs in ostensive contexts, where label and referent co-occur, and that form and meaning are linked by arbitrary convention alone.
Lu, J.C. +3 more
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Orality and literacy: epic heroes of human destiny? [PDF]
, 2003 Human Speech has often been presented as the crucial line dividing humanity from animals, with Literacy then entering in as the fulfiller of human destiny, the redeemer from primitive orality, and, in alphabetic apotheosis, the all-conquering hero of the
Finnegan, Ruth
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The lexicographic treatment of quantitative pronouns in Zulu [PDF]
, 2008 In Zulu, there are three kinds of quantitatives: inclusive, exclusive and numeral. For the lemmatization of these, even existing traditional dictionaries felt the need to move away from a pure 'stem' approach towards a 'word' approach.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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C-r de Rethinking bilingual education in postcolonial contexts, de F Chimbutane, 2011 [PDF]
, 2013 comments on educational issues in Chimbutane's case study of the Mozambican bilingual education programquestions éducatives dans le livre de Chimbutane qui présente une étude de cas du programme d'éducation bilingue au ...
Lafon, Michel
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Ideophones in Zulu
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: The ideophone, a word class not unique to but highly characteristic of the Bantu languages, presents particular challenges in both monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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International Journal of Literature, Language and LinguisticsThis work presents a morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis of ideophones in Tee. The work used the descriptive research design to describe aspects of the morphological and syntactic structures of ideophones in the language. Data for the work were gathered from the 5 Tee language consultants (native speakers), during oral interviews on the use of fixed
Samuel Fubara Joshua, Iniah Barikpe
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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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Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2023 Sasaki K +4 more
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: Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove & Dominique Caubet (eds) (2012). 'The CorpAfroAs Corpus'. ANR CorpAfroAs: a Corpus for Afro-Asiatic languages, [http://corpafroas.tge-adonis.fr/Archives/HAU/PDF/HAU_BC_GRAMMATICALSKETCH.PDF] [PDF]
, 2015 Document électronique. Esquisse grammaticale du haoussa (langue tchadique du Nigéria)A grammatical sketch of Hausa (a West-Chadic language spoken mainly in Nigeria) written as an annex to the annotated Hausa Corpus transcribed for the CorpAfroAs project (
Caron, Bernard
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Ideophonic verb compounds in Archi
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsArchi 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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