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WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 5, September/October 2023., 2023 Embodied simulation in thought and spoken language: Einstein's falling elevator passes Pharrell William's hot air balloon at the edge of space. Abstract The findings of cognitive linguistics demonstrate the thoroughly embodied grounding of linguistic constructions and linguistic meaning ranging from abstract thought to interactive communication.
Jamin Pelkey
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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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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach
Languages, 2023 Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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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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Finnish Nominal Ideophones as Evaluatives [PDF]
, 2014 ideophonesmorphologyFinnish languagePresented at Structuring Sensory Imagery: Ideophones across Languages and Cultures, May 2-3, 2014. University of Rochester, Rochester, NYWorkshop Structuring Sensory Imagery: Ideophones across Languages and Cultures ...
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The lexicographic treatment of ideophones in Zulu [PDF]
, 2009 The ideophone, a word class not unique to but highly characteristic of the Bantu languages, presents particular challenges in both monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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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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Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study [PDF]
, 2010 Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]
, 2017 International ...
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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