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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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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault, Aimée Lahaussois, Yvonne Treis   +2 more
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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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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 semantic extension of Korean ideophones in newspapers headlines

Korean Linguistics
This paper explores the semantic features of Korean ideophones in newspaper headlines. This paper argues that (i) there is a strong relationship between the language-specific sound symbolic meanings – dark and light vowel polarity and the meanings of
Jiyeon Park
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Syntactic—Stylistic Critique of Interjections & Ideophones with Reference to the IsiZulu Novel

Forum for Linguistic Studies
Through the lenses of descriptive linguistics, interjections and ideophones are usually analysed separately from literature in the South African indigenous languages.
Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini
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IDEOPHONES AS LINGUISTIC “REBELS”: THE EXTRA-SYSTEMATICITY OF IDEOPHONES IN XHOSA – Part II

, 2021
This paper contributes to the study of the structural distinctiveness of the category of ideophony. The author analyzes the extent to which Xhosa ideophones exhibit the so-called extra-systematic properties, which cross-linguistically tend to distinguish
A. Andrason
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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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