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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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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 The question of whether or not ideophones constitute a separate word class in a language has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. While Newman (1968), Courtenay (1976), Marivate (1985), Creissels (2001), Laughlin (2007), Beck (2008), among others, argue that ideophones in their languages of research form a subset of one of the ...
Kanu, Sullay Mohamed
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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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Corrélés sémantiques de l’alternance vocalique dans les idéophones du turc
Signifiances (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
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Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions
Language and CognitionJapanese patients often describe their pain with ideophones (sound-symbolic, imitative words), such as biribiri ‘having a continuous electric shock’. However, some manuals for healthcare workers recommend avoiding using these words in their interactions ...
Kimi Akita
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Literator, 2018 The meaning of words comes into play when words as units of translation are to be translated from one language into another. Lexical items that are extant in one language but not in others pose enormous problems for translators.
Mthikazi Rose Masubelele
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Size and shape ideophones in Nembe a phonosemantic analysis.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 In Nembe, ideophones, as in symbolic words in all languages in general, there is direct connection between sounds and the meanings they convey. For Nembe ideophones describing the fields of size and shape.
Omen N. Maduka
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The “exotic” nature of ideophones –from Khoekhoe to Xhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 The present paper analyzes the exoticness of Khoekhoe-sourced ideophones as a possible factor that stimulated the introduction of certain phonological novelties to the sound system of Xhosa.
Andrason, Alexander
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An Expanded Model for Perceptual Norming: Insights From Japanese Ideophones
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Iconicity is inherently grounded in sensory experience, yet few studies investigate how sensory information is packaged in iconic words. We present perceptual strength ratings for Japanese ideophones, to ask how sensory information is encoded in this word class.
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