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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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, 2022 In our previous experiment (preregistration: https://osf.io/f7tg6), we examined whether multiple presentations of (one, two, or four) ideophones that depict emotion influence the valence and arousal evaluations of entire presented stimuli.
Yuki Yamada +2 more
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Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives)
, 2019 Ideophones, also termed “mimetics” or “expressives,” are marked words that depict sensory imagery. They are found in many of the world’s languages, and sizable lexical classes of ideophones are particularly well-documented in languages of Asia, Africa ...
Kimi Akita +3 more
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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.
Bonnie McLean +3 more
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‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter makes the case for ‘ideophone’ as a comparative concept: a notion that captures a recurrent typological pattern and provides a template for understanding language-specific phenomena that prove similar. It revises an earlier definition to account for the observation that ideophones typically form an open lexical class, and uses insights ...
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Collabra, 2016 Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing.
Gwilym Lockwood +2 more
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Revue des études slaves, 2018 The article discusses the use of particular forms, ‘verbal interjections’, in Russian and Serbian. These forms fall somewhere in between the interjections and verbs and occupy a distinct place in the grammatical systems of these inflected languages.
Irina Kor Chahine, Tanja Milosavljevic
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