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Ideophones

, 2023
Abstract Many of the world’s languages feature an open lexical class of ideophones, words whose marked forms and sensory meanings invite iconic associations. Ideophones (also known as mimetics or expressives) are well known from languages in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, where they often form a class on the same order of magnitude as ...
Dingemanse, M.
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Folk definitions of ideophones

Field manual volume 13(pp. 24-29).Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics., 2010
Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory events, for example English hippety-hoppety ‘in a limping and hobbling manner’ or Siwu mukumuku ‘mouth movements of a toothless person eating’. They typically have special sound patterns and distinct grammatical properties.
Dingemanse, M.
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Based on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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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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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions

Language and Cognition
Japanese patients often describe their pain with ideophones (sound-symbolic, imitative words), such as biribiri ‘having a continuous electric shock’. However, some manuals for healthcare workers recommend avoiding using these words in their interactions ...
Kimi Akita
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
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Phonation Types Matter in Sound Symbolism. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 2021
Abstract Sound symbolism is a non‐arbitrary correspondence between sound and meaning. The majority of studies on sound symbolism have focused on consonants and vowels, and the sound‐symbolic properties of suprasegmentals, particularly phonation types, have been largely neglected. This study examines the size and shape symbolism of four phonation types:
Akita K.
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
Wilding E, Winter B, Littlemore J, Perlman M.   +3 more
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Teko Ideophones: description of a word class

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive description of the ideophones of Teko, a Tupi language spoken in French Guiana. This word class, previously only briefly described,  is defined in this paper through a systematic comparison to nouns and
Françoise Rose
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