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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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, 2014 The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature of non-arbitrary relations between linguistic sounds and semantics ...
Conrad, Markus +2 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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Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives) [PDF]
, 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 the languages of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Akita, K., Dingemanse, M.
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The audiovisual structure of onomatopoeias: An intrusion of real-world physics in lexical creation [PDF]
, 2018 Sound-symbolic word classes are found in different cultures and languages worldwide. These words are continuously produced to code complex information about events.
Assaneo, María Florencia +6 more
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsBased on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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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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L'idéophone en ebwela, langue bantoue du nord-ouest de la RD Congo [PDF]
, 2014 Partant de la définition proposée par (Doke, 1935) de l’idéophone comme représentation vivante d’une idée en sons, nous décrivons, dans cet article, les aspects phonologiques, morphologiques et syntaxiques des mots idéophoniques en ebwela, langue bantu ...
Donzo Bunza Yugia, Jean-Pierre
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