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Ideophones

, 2019
Ideophones are words that vividly depict sensory experience with marked forms. They abound in many languages of the world, including Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, and Quechuan languages as well as Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Basque.
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Amharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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The sound roots of Umóⁿhoⁿ

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This paper presents a corpus-based study of lexemes denoting sounds in Umóⁿhoⁿ (oma), a Siouan language of North America. I take as a starting point a list of sound-denoting verbal roots (in short: “sound roots”), presented as onomatopoeia in a paper by ...
Julie Marsault
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Insectophones in the English phonosemantic system

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017
The article is devoted the types of iconic lexis, the term insectophone is introduced and its place in the English phonosemantic system is defined.
V V Oschepkova, E S Razheva
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Ideophones in Zulu

Lexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: The ideophone, a word class not unique to but highly characteristic of the Bantu languages, presents particular challenges in both monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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Ideophones in Tee

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics
This work presents a morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis of ideophones in Tee. The work used the descriptive research design to describe aspects of the morphological and syntactic structures of ideophones in the language. Data for the work were gathered from the 5 Tee language consultants (native speakers), during oral interviews on the use of fixed
Samuel Fubara Joshua, Iniah Barikpe
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Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci, 2023
Sasaki K, Kadowaki S, Iwasaki J, Pijanowska M, Okamoto H.   +4 more
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Ideophonic verb compounds in Archi

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Archi is a one-village language (1,000 speakers) belonging to the Lezgic branch of East Caucasian. It has a large and productive class of compound verbs combining a light verb and ‘coverbs’ of nominal, adjectival, verbal or unknown origin.
Gilles Authier
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Sound-Action Symbolism. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Vainio L, Vainio M.
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Cognitive Linguistics and Communication

Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association
Professionals dealing with communication and its disorders should acquaint themselves with the concepts and methods of cognitive linguistics because it permits viewing language as a multimodal communication system.
Duggirala Vasanta
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