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Ideophones as Positive Polarity Items

, 2021
The thesis proposes a connection between polarity sensitivity and ideophones (words that convey perceptual experience with particular vividness and are characterized by frequent sound symbolism).
Tolskaya, Maria
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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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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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Translating English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis across Six Decades (1932–1992)

Arts, 2020
Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic
Pier Simone Pischedda
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Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines the relation between ideophones and gestures in a corpus of everyday discourse in Siwu, a richly ideophonic language spoken in Ghana.
Dingemanse, M.
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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.
openaire   +1 more source

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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Manchu-Sibe Ideophones in Areal and Genetic Perspective [PDF]

, 2023
Ideophones have been a rich topic for cross-linguistic investigation, in both global and East Asian contexts. The present study examines the phonology and morphosyntax of ideophones in Manchu-Sibe (Tungusic, China), using both existing literature ...
Hayden, Brian, Liu, Feixiong Hasutai, Sharp, Jared   +2 more
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