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Linguistic Typology, 2020 An elicitation task was conducted with speakers of Japonic varieties to investigate whether stimuli of varying sensory modalities (e.g. audio, visual, tactile etc.) were more or less likely to elicit ideophones or iconic words.
Bonnie McLean
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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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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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Forum for Linguistic StudiesSouth Africa is a multilingual country wherein 12 languages are official, including Siswati. As in other Bantu languages, the ideophone is a unique part of speech in Siswati that is predominantly used by language users in daily conversations for various communicative purposes.
Muzi Matfunjwa, Khulisile Judith Nkuna
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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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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsAmharic (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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Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis paper presents a corpus-based study of lexemes denoting sounds in Umóⁿhoⁿ (oma), a Siouan language of North America. I take as a starting point a list of sound-denoting verbal roots (in short: “sound roots”), presented as onomatopoeia in a paper by ...
Julie Marsault
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Atypical Tactile Expressions Using Japanese Ideophones in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersPURPOSE Japanese ideophones (onomatopoeia) constitute a unique lexical system that conveys complex sensations and emotions through embodied sound symbolism.
T. Nakano +6 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2008 This study is based on a general review of the vowel and consonant clusters known as submorphemes, ideophones and phonaesthemes that are evidenced in the lexicon of the English language.
Didier Bottineau
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