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An online experiment on the multiple presentations of ideophones: Does the identity of ideophones matter?

open access: yes, 2022
In our previous experiments (preregistration: https://osf.io/f7tg6, https://osf.io/nbpzs), we investigated whether multiple presentations of ideophones that represent emotion influence the valence and arousal evaluations of entire presented stimuli.
Yuki Yamada   +2 more
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A Hierarchy of Crossmodal Odor Associations: Exploring the Role of Pleasantness and Edibility in Odor Crossmodal Associations Across the Senses

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Crossmodal associations with odors have the potential to aid in odor perception and language. In addition, identifying the dimensions that drive odor crossmodal associations may help understand the critical dimensions underlying odor perception more generally.
Laura J. Speed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideophones (Oxford Handbook of Word Classes)

open access: yes, 2023
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 ...
Mark Dingemanse
core   +1 more source

Where Do Ideophones Come From? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This paper begins with an analysis of ideophones in Kisi (West Atlantic, Guinea). This examination leads to consideration of the diachrony of ideophones, but because of the lack of data with any real time depth, we are limited to finding clues in the ...
Childs, George Tucker
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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
wiley   +1 more source

« Prédicats interjectifs » (« verboïdes », « idéophones » et assimilés) en russe et en serbe deux langues, deux stratégies

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept [PDF]

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

Description des idéophones en tupuri

open access: yesAkofena
Résumé : Les idéophones sont des mots permettant d’exprimer une idée dans une langue. Tout comme dans beaucoup de langues africaines, les idéophones sont très productifs en tupuri. Cependant, peu de travaux se sont intéressés à cette catégorie de mots. L’
BABA ATEMGA NDOUWE
doaj   +1 more source

Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
doaj   +1 more source

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