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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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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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Tones in Cantonese English and Musical Intervals [PDF]
, 2014 Poster PresentationConference Theme: Linguistic Diversity in Asia: Theories and MethodsThe Program and Abstracts can be viewed at: http://linguistics.hku.hk/summer/CONF.pdfIt has been shown that the relative pitch levels of Cantonese tones closely ...
Yiu, SSY
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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 CrossroadsThe 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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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Translation of English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics
Open Linguistics, 2020 Phonosymbolic elements such as ideophones and interjections test the translator’s ability in various ways. These forms would, in theory, require a complete change of form and substance of the source text but this has not always been possible because of ...
Pischedda Pier Simone
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Lexikos at eighteen: an analysis [PDF]
, 2009 At eighteen, Lexikos became a major player in the field of linguistics, by being awarded an Impact Factor. This article presents a double analysis of the foundation that led to this success. On the one hand a thorough statistical study is undertaken with
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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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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An outline of Lulubo phonology
Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 This article outlines the phonology of Lulubo, a little known Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern Sudan. An account is given of the phonemic inventory (vowels, consonants, and tones), vowel harmony, syllable structure, special features of ...
Torben Andersen
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