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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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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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International Journal of Literature, Language and LinguisticsThis work presents a morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis of ideophones in Tee. The work used the descriptive research design to describe aspects of the morphological and syntactic structures of ideophones in the language. Data for the work were gathered from the 5 Tee language consultants (native speakers), during oral interviews on the use of fixed
Samuel Fubara Joshua, Iniah Barikpe
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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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The Phonology of Edo Ideophones
Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and LiteratureThis study addresses the inadequately documented phonological behaviour of ideophones in E̩do, an E̩doid language of Southern Nigeria, where these forms are often noted but lack detailed analysis.
Victor Edosa Omozuwa +1 more
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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 SciAbstract 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 +3 more
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Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age
Frontiers in Language SciencesSound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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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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Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify? [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be “played with” in iconic gradient ways by varying vowel length, pitch, or speed (e.g., “It's been a loooooooong day ...
Ferrara C, Lu JC, Goldin-Meadow S.
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