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The prosodic integration of Teko ideophones

open access: yes, 2021
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to present a prosodic description of ideophones in Teko, contributing to the recent development of research on ideophones (Childs 1994, Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001, Dingemanse 2012).
Krzonowski, Jennifer   +2 more
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

open access: yesLinguistic 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
doaj   +1 more source

The submorphemic conjecture in English: towards a distributed model of the cognitive dynamics of submorphemes

open access: yesLexis: 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Ideophone in Siswati

open access: yesForum for Linguistic Studies
South 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
openaire   +1 more source

Ideophones in Xiangxi Miao

open access: yes, 2011
[[abstract]]Miao-Yao languages constitute one of the primary language families of Southern China and Southeast Asia. They manifest a profound, prolonged contact relationship with Chinese, and occupy an unusually important place among the language groups ...
洪于茜
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The sound roots of Umóⁿhoⁿ

open access: yesLinguistic 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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Ideophones in Gizey grammar

open access: yes
This paper discusses ideophonicity in Gizey (Chadic), viz., the ability of a word to depict sensory experiences. The term “ideophone” is frequently attested in the Gizey literature. While ideophones are classified as a separate word class (part-of-speech)
Guitang, Guillaume
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"Ideophones” in Upper Guinea Creoles

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceLike many Niger-Congo languages, all Upper Guinea Creoles (UGCs) spoken in Africa (i.e. except Papiamentu) make use of a specific set of adverbs which specifically intensify various verbs of the language.
Quint, Nicolas, Biagui,, Noël-Bernard
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Insectophones in the English phonosemantic system

open access: yesRUDN 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
doaj   +1 more source

Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Hum Neurosci, 2023
Sasaki K   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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