Results 11 to 20 of about 953 (193)
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 ...
Alexander Andrason, Michael Karani
exaly +3 more sources
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
exaly +5 more sources
Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Iconicity, or the resemblance between form and meaning, is often ascribed to a special status and contrasted with default assumptions of arbitrariness in spoken language.
Thomas Van Hoey +3 more
semanticscholar +2 more sources
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
doaj +3 more sources
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions
Language and CognitionJapanese 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
doaj +2 more sources
Language and CognitionIdeophones – imitative words using the stream of speech to simulate/depict the rise and fall of sensory perceptions and emotions and temporal experiences of completiveness, instantaneousness, and repetitiveness – have been characterized as semantically ...
Dan P. Dewey +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Iconic prosody enhances the depictive power of ideophones
Language and CognitionProsody not only signals the speaker’s cognitive states but can also imitate various concepts. However, previous studies on the latter, the iconic function of prosody, have mostly analyzed novel words and nonlinguistic vocalizations.
Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
doaj +2 more sources
An Expanded Model for Perceptual Norming: Insights From Japanese Ideophones.
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Iconicity is inherently grounded in sensory experience, yet few studies investigate how sensory information is packaged in iconic words. We present perceptual strength ratings for Japanese ideophones, to ask how sensory information is encoded in this ...
Bonnie McLean +3 more
semanticscholar +2 more sources
Cognitive LinguisticsIdeophones are marked words which depict sensory imagery and are usually considered iconic by native speakers (i.e., ideophones sound like what they mean). Owing to shared cross-linguistic characteristics of expressive prosody, reduplication, and unusual
Thompson Arthur Lewis +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources