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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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Ideophones

, 2019
Ideophones are words that vividly depict sensory experience with marked forms. They abound in many languages of the world, including Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, and Quechuan languages as well as Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Basque.
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Paradigms of social aesthetics in Themne oral performance [PDF]

, 2009
As this study argues, aesthetic considerations also play a critical role in their deployment of multimedia to realize creativity and achieve artistic variation. It is in this way that oral artists elaborate and improvise during oral performances, thereby
Khan, Amadu Wurie
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The submorphemic conjecture in English: towards a distributed model of the cognitive dynamics of submorphemes

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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Origin of symbol-using systems: speech, but not sign, without the semantic urge [PDF]

, 2014
Natural language—spoken and signed—is a multichannel phenomenon, involving facial and body expression, and voice and visual intonation that is often used in the service of a social urge to communicate meaning.
Alberts B, Baldwin JM, Darwin C, Darwin C, Deacon TW, Donald M, Fauconnier G, Gross CG, Hauser M, Jablonski NG, Jackendoff R, Judson HF, Kendon A, King BJ, Klima ES, Knight C, Langacker R, Martin I. Sereno, Merker B, Miller SL, Mithen S, Rubens AB, Sereno MI, Sereno MI, Sereno ML, Wills C, Woese CR, Yip M   +27 more
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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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Picturing words: The semantics of speech balloons [PDF]

, 2019
Semantics traditionally focuses on linguistic meaning. In recent years, the Super Linguistics movement has tried to broaden the scope of inquiry in various directions, including an extension of semantics to talk about the meaning of pictures.
Maier, Emar
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Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value" [PDF]

, 2009
Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them.
Cable, Coon, David Pesetsky, England, Laughren, Legate, Mithun, Osada   +7 more
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Lexical restructuring and creole genesis [PDF]

, 1988
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Muysken, P.C.
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The sound roots of Umóⁿhoⁿ

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This 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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