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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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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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, 1998 The paper presents the first systematic account of a substantial number of Somali ideophones. The ideophones are first defined according to a number of phonological and morphosyntactic criteria, then categorized according to basic semantic fields, and ...
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Where Do Ideophones Come From?
, 1989 This paper begins with an analysis of ideophones in Kisi (West Atlantic, Guinea). This examination leads to consideration of the diachrony of ideophones, but because of the lack of data with any real time depth, we are limited to finding clues in the ...
Childs, George Tucker
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, 2014 Ideophones are a class of words which occur in many languages throughout the world, but are relatively uncommon in English. Though often mimetic, ideophones are not to be confused with onomatopoeia since they extend well beyond the narrow scope of sound ...
Franck, Genevieve E.
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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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Glossa, 2019 Iconicity is when linguistic units are perceived as ‘sounding like what they mean,’ so that phonological structure of an iconic word is what begets its meaning through perceived imitation, rather than an arbitrary semantic link.
Arthur Lewis Thompson, Youngah Do
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International Journal of Literature, Language and LinguisticsThis 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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Ideophones (Oxford Handbook of Word Classes)
, 2023 Many of the world’s languages feature an open lexical class of ideophones, words whose marked forms and sensory meanings invite iconic associations. Ideophones (also known as mimetics or expressives) are well-known from languages in Asia, Africa and the ...
Mark Dingemanse
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, 2016 International audienceThis study identifies and describes ideophones used in Babanki (henceforth Kejom as the people prefer to call themselves and their language), a Centre Ring Grassfields Bantu language of Northwest Cameroon. The study of ideophones or
Akumbu, Pius W.
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