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Ideophones as used in W. Shasha’s Zihlabana Nje Ziyalamba

, 2012
This article examines the use of ideophones in the poetry of W. Shasha that is contained in the anthology Zihlabana nje ziyalamba (1992). As Shasha uses ideophones of different structures, this article will illustrate how the poet uses monosyllabic ...
Mtumane, Z, Tabu, RN
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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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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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BMM1-CBR_06 - A ideophones

Discussion of ideophones starting with A, and related. .

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Ideophones in Tee

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics
This 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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BMM1-MEL_02 - B ideophones

Discussion of B ideophones. Video for P1 cuts out partway through, but audio continues. .

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Manchu-Sibe Ideophones in Areal and Genetic Perspective [PDF]

, 2023
Ideophones have been a rich topic for cross-linguistic investigation, in both global and East Asian contexts. The present study examines the phonology and morphosyntax of ideophones in Manchu-Sibe (Tungusic, China), using both existing literature ...
Hayden, Brian, Liu, Feixiong Hasutai, Sharp, Jared   +2 more
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Insectophones in the English phonosemantic system

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017
The article is devoted the types of iconic lexis, the term insectophone is introduced and its place in the English phonosemantic system is defined.
V V Oschepkova, E S Razheva
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BMM1-CBR_03 - L Ideophones

Discussion of ideophones starting with L, taken from the Encycolpedia Mundari..

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Making new ideophones in Siwu: Creative depiction in conversation [PDF]

, 2014
Ideophones are found in many of the world’s languages. Though they are a major word class on a par with nouns and verbs, their origins are ill-understood, and the question of ideophone creation has been a source of controversy.
Dingemanse, M.
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