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Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract 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. But does iconicity in spoken language have a special status when it comes to learnability?
Thomas Van Hoey +3 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Guébie is an Eastern Kru language spoken by about 7000 people in the Gagnoa prefecture of Côte d’Ivoire. This paper provides an overview of the phonology of Guébie, including the complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts, CVCV/CCV alternations ...
Hannah Sande
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Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 11, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Iterated language learning experiments that explore the emergence of linguistic structure in the laboratory vary considerably in methodological implementation, limiting the generalizability of findings. Most studies also restrict themselves to exploring the emergence of combinatorial and compositional structure in isolation.
Vera Kempe +4 more
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Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 4-24, May 2021., 2021 In Batek, both iconic and avoidant speech forms only have the desired effect when their sounds are at the same time like, and different to, their referents. This necessary coexistence of likeness and difference in particular speech forms resonates with the sought for coexistence of alterity and affinity in Batek interpersonal relationships.
Alice Rudge
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Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing. [PDF]
Dev SciAbstract Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing applesauce. In three experiments using different methods we asked whether the number of distinct senses linked with the semantic features of objects would impact word ...
Seidl AH, Indarjit M, Borovsky A.
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Languages, 2022 This paper aims to provide the readers with an overview of the nature of sound symbolism in Italian and offers new food for thought to scholars in the under-researched field of sound symbolism in translated literature for young readers.
Pier Simone Pischedda
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, 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 ...
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Food‐texture dimensions expressed by Japanese onomatopoeic words
Journal of Texture Studies, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 398-411, June 2020., 2020 Abstract This study examined perceptual dimensions of food texture using Japanese onomatopoeic words. Photographs of 56 foods were presented to the participants, and they reported onomatopoeic (mimetic) words suitable for the texture of the foods. The participants' responses were collated into a contingency table of photographs by onomatopoeic words ...
Mitsuhiko Hanada
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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
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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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