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Ideophones and Reported Discourse as Depictive Signs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
自然言語への理論的アプロー
Akita, Kimi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing. [PDF]

open access: yesDev Sci
Abstract 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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Corpus-Based Study on the Translation of English Ideophones in Italian Picture Books: The Case of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ideophones

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Food‐texture dimensions expressed by Japanese onomatopoeic words

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Ideophones and Realia in a Santome/Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Corrélés sémantiques de l’alternance vocalique dans les idéophones du turc

open access: yesSignifiances (Signifying), 2020
Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser l’alternance vocalique des idéophones du turc (Harrison 2004, Ido 2011, Karahan 2008), en étudiant l’alternance sémantique qui y est associée. La méthodologie adoptée afin de démontrer la corrélation entre les deux
Nezihe Zeybek
doaj   +1 more source

Arbitrariness, iconicity, and systematicity in language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world.
Blasi, Damian E.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Neurological evidence for the context-independent multisensorial semantics of ideophones in Pastaza Kichwa: an fNIRS study in the Ecuadorian Amazon

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Ideophones – 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   +1 more source

Confidence in expressing novel textures - an analysis of Japanese ideophones that describe visually-induced textures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Although a close relationship between the emergence of a new expression and that of either a new object or concept is presupposed in linguistic analysis, the correlation has not been pursued thoroughly.
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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