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The Role of Ideophones: Phonological and Morphological Characteristics in Literature

, 2019
Many Asian languages, such as Korean and Japanese, are well-known for their wide use of sound symbolic words or ideophones. This is a very particular characteristic which enriches its lexicon hugely.
Cristina Bahón Arnaiz
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Somali ideophones

, 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 ...
Tosco, Mauro, Cabdulqaadir Salaad Dhoorre   +1 more
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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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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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BMM1-MEL_04 - B ideophones

Discussion of ideophones starting with B, and related. .

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Ideophones as linguistic "rebels" : the extra-systematicity of ideophones in Xhosa (part 1) [PDF]

, 2020
CITATION: Andrason, A. 2020. Ideophones as linguistic "rebels" : the extra-systematicity of ideophones in Xhosa (part 1). Asian and African Studies, 29(2)119-165.The original publication is available at http://orient.sav.sk/en/asian-and-african ...
Andrason, Alexander
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Amharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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A literary analysis of ideophones as a stylistic technique in D.B.Z. Ntuli’s poetry. [PDF]

, 2021
Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.This Study on ‘A Literary analysis of Ideophones as a Stylistic Technique in the poetry of D.B.Z.
Msomi, Emmanuel Msawenkosi.
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An online experiment on the multiple presentations of ideophones: The effect of the number of ideophones

, 2022
In our previous experiment (preregistration: https://osf.io/f7tg6), we examined whether multiple presentations of (one, two, or four) ideophones that depict emotion influence the valence and arousal evaluations of entire presented stimuli.
Yuki Yamada, Fumiya Yonemitsu, Akihiko Gobara   +2 more
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Defining iconicity: An articulation-based methodology for explaining the phonological structure of ideophones

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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