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Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing

Developmental Science, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing applesauce. In three experiments using different methods we asked whether the number of distinct senses linked with the semantic features of objects would impact word ...
Amanda H. Seidl, Michelle Indarjit, Arielle Borovsky   +2 more
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Teko Ideophones: description of a word class

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive description of the ideophones of Teko, a Tupi language spoken in French Guiana. This word class, previously only briefly described,  is defined in this paper through a systematic comparison to nouns and
Françoise Rose
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The Phonology of Edo Ideophones

Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature
This study addresses the inadequately documented phonological behaviour of ideophones in E̩do, an E̩doid language of Southern Nigeria, where these forms are often noted but lack detailed analysis.
Victor Edosa Omozuwa, E̩dosa James Edionhon   +1 more
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The Sound-Symbolic Expression of Animacy in Amazonian Ecuador

Diversity, 2010
Several anthropologists of Amazonian societies in Ecuador have claimed that for Achuar [1] and Quichua speaking Runa [2-4] there is no fundamental distinction between humans on the one hand, and plants and animals on the other.
Janis B. Nuckolls
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Total reduplication in Japanese ideophones: An exercise in Localized Canonical Typology

Glossa, 2017
Cross-linguistically, reduplication associated with iconic readings, such as plurality, iteration, and continuation, is prevalent in ideophones. However, not all reduplicative processes in ideophones are clearly iconic. Notably, both less and more iconic
Nahyun Kwon
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The Ideophone in Siswati

Forum for Linguistic Studies
South Africa is a multilingual country wherein 12 languages are official, including Siswati. As in other Bantu languages, the ideophone is a unique part of speech in Siswati that is predominantly used by language users in daily conversations for various communicative purposes.
Muzi Matfunjwa, Khulisile Judith Nkuna
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Ideophones in Upper Guinea Creoles: a comparative study

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
The Upper Guinea Creoles (UGCs) are a family of closely related Afro-Portuguese languages, comprising three branches: continental (Casamance and Guinea-Bissau), insular (Cape Verde) and ABC (Dutch Antilles).
Nicolas Quint, Noël Bernard Biagui
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Hindi Ideophones

, 2014
This thesis explores ideophones in Hindi. Ideophones are "marked words that depict sensory imagery" (Dingemnase 2011:25). It focuses on four main topics represented by four main sections.
Diatka, Vojtěch
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Anglophonic Influence in the Use of Sound Symbolism in Italian Disney Comics: A Corpus-based Analysis

Open Linguistics, 2017
This article will explore the linguistic implications of employing and creating sound symbolism (ideophones, onomatopoeia and interjections) in Italian Disney comics.
Pischedda Pier Simone
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Ideophones in Khaling Rai

, 2017
In Khaling Rai, a number of lexemes have been found which can be considered ideophones, according to Dingemanse’s (2012: 654) definition of the latter as “marked words depictive of sensory imagery.” This article will describe the ...
Aimeé Lahaussois
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