Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures. [PDF]
Hübler N.
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Neurophysiological Correlates of Frequency, Concreteness, and Iconicity in American Sign Language. [PDF]
Emmorey K +4 more
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The Anatomy of Iconicity: Cumulative Structural Analogies Underlie Objective and Subjective Measures of Iconicity. [PDF]
Punselie S, McLean B, Dingemanse M.
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The cognitive science of language diversity: achievements and challenges. [PDF]
Benítez-Burraco A.
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The following presentation is based on a database of 243 ideophones taken from various dictionaries and sources. It should be stressed that generally the use of ideophones in Hausa is very common. They will be analysed morphologically and syntactically, trying also to categorise them according to their phonetics and semantics.
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Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English. [PDF]
de Varda AG, Marelli M.
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This 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 marked words that depict sensory imagery (Dingemanse 2011) in Africa has expanded in recent years (Blench 2010) but our ...
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Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices. [PDF]
Petrollino S.
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Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper. [PDF]
Körner A +11 more
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How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view. [PDF]
Benítez-Burraco A.
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