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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones [PDF]
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
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Ideophones and Realia in a Santome/Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary
Languages, 2020 In this work, we discuss how Araujo & Hagemeijer’s Santome/Portuguese bilingual dictionary defines and describes ideophones and realia lemmata. We show that ideophones were listed individually along with their expression counterparts.
Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
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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
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, 2013 The following presentation is based on a database of 243 ideophones taken from various dictionaries and sources. It should be stressed that generally the use of ideophones in Hausa is very common.
Baldi, Sergio
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Korean Mothers Attune the Frequency and Acoustic Saliency of Sound Symbolic Words to the Linguistic Maturity of Their Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The present study investigates Korean mothers’ use of sound symbolism, in particular expressive lengthening and ideophones, in their speech directed to their children. Specifically, we explore whether the frequency and acoustic saliency of sound symbolic
Jinyoung Jo, Eon-Suk Ko
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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
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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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Les caractéristiques linguistiques des onomatopées et idéophones en gouro et en anglais: une étude contrastive [PDF]
Akofena, 2023 Résumé : L'onomatopée et l’idéophone, fabrications imitatives de mots à partir de sons, sont des phénomènes courants que l'on retrouve dans toutes les langues du monde.
Lou Yeri Constance MOMO & Kobenan Kra Florent YAO
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A Comparative Study of Ideophones in Dagbani and Gurenԑ
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 Ideophones have been analysed in the linguistic literature as a class of words that depict sensory imagery; they are established in most natural languages, but particularly in African and Asian languages. They have gained popularity for their uniqueness
Samuel Awinkene Atintono +1 more
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The phonology of Kafi Noonoo ideophones [PDF]
, 2023 This paper is the first and original work on the phonology of Kafi Noonoo ideophones. All of the data used in this study are collected through fieldwork.
Mengistu, Girma, Mulugeta, Teferi
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