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Patterns of Acehnese Reduplication in Early Literary Works

open access: yesOkara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2022
Reduplication is a morphological operation in many Austronesian languages, including Acehnese. This process is very productive in Acehnese, and it occurs with many patterns. This study aims to find out the reduplication patterns in Acehnese based on nine
Faisal Mustafa
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Onomatopen: Painting Using Onomatopoeia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We propose an interactive technique using onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia are imitative words such as "Zig-zag" and "Tick-tock". Some Asian languages, especially Japanese and Korean, have many onomatopoeia words, which are frequently used in ordinary conversation, as well as in the written language.
Kambara, Keisuke, Tsukada, Koji
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Food and Relatedness From Past to Present in the Arbëreshë Community of Molise. The Evolving Power of Food Gifts as Binding Agents After 1960s Industrialization

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article investigates how the changing value of food due to the transition from famine to abundance after industrialization in the 1960s generated a shift in sociality and ways of being together in the Arbëreshë community, who immigrated to Molise during the sixteenth century.
Elisa Pastorelli
wiley   +1 more source

Onomatopoeic Words in Slovak: Everyday Use and Stylistic Function

open access: yesSlavistica Vilnensis, 2022
Onomatopoeias — words that echo sounds from the extra-linguistic reality — are usually understood as units representing direct relationship between form and meaning.
Renáta Gregová
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2301-2316, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expressive Phonemes in Japanese

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1986
It was theorized that phonemes and meaning may be related in a manner that is not arbitrary. Japanese reduplicative onomatopoeia and metaphoric onomatopoeia were used for an investigation of the functioning of the phoneme as a minimal meaningful unit in ...
Bruch, Julie
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Investigation of Japanese Onomatopoeia Tsuru-Tsuru as a Suitable Sensory Attribute for Perception of Surface Properties of Textiles by Non-Trained Individuals

open access: yesTextiles, 2023
In recent years, using non-trained individuals in sensory science for analytical tasks has gained traction. Identifying attributes enabling non-experts to express perceptions is crucial for accurate fabric assessments and effective communication of ...
Raphael Romao Santos   +2 more
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Towards a Fregean psycholinguistics

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 349-371, September 2025.
Abstract This paper is partly exegetical, partly systematic. I argue that Frege's account of what he called “colouring” contains some important insights on how communication is related to mental states such as mental images or emotions. I also show that the Fregean perspective is supported by current research in psycholinguistics and that a full ...
Thorsten Sander
wiley   +1 more source

ACEHNESE ONOMATOPOEIAS: INVESTIGATING, LISTING, AND INTERPRETING THEIR MEANINGS

open access: yesEnglisia, 2019
Sound-imitating words, called onomatopoeia, presents in most of languages in the world including Acehnese language, one of traditional languages in Indonesia, in which a great deal of onomatopoeias exist in it due to its unique constructions of ...
Ida Muliawati, Dara Yusnida
doaj   +1 more source

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 8, August 2025.
Abstract Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
Ell Wilding   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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