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Phonaesthemes and sound symbolism in Swedish brand names
Ampersand, 2015 This study examines the prevalence of sound symbolism in Swedish brand names. A general principle of brand name design is that effective names should be distinctive, recognizable, easy to pronounce and meaningful.
Åsa Abelin
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French Loanwords in English cr-phonaesthemic group
ДискурсIntroduction. The article examines the influence of French borrowings on the process of development of phonaesthemic sound symbolism in the English language.
V. N. Malysheva
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Devising Yorùbá Terminology for Phonology Terms (from letter P to letter R)
Yoruba Studies Review, 2023 This essay, which is part three (3) of the report on the formulation of Yorùbá phonology terms from their English counterparts, discusses English phonology terms for letters P, Q, and R and the Yorùbá counterparts, totaling ninety-one (91) terms numbered
Oyetayo A Bankale +2 more
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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2022 When asked whether all texts are translatable, Roman Jakobson answered: “yes, to a certain extent” (qtd. in Hatim and Munday 16). Poetry in particular is notoriously difficult to translate due to its complexity and intricacies of form and meaning, on the
Creangă Maria-Teodora
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Complexity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but operationalizes the concept of proportional analogy using the mathematics of linear algebra.
R. Harald Baayen +4 more
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Phonaesthemes: non-arbitrariness in the mental lexicon? [PDF]
Miranda, 2012 Si les sons des mots d’une langue sont, dans la plupart des cas, arbitraires par rapport au sens des mots qu'ils composent, il y a néanmoins deux raisons permettant de penser que tel ou tel mot pourrait être non-arbitraire. Premièrement, il peut y avoir des causes externes telles que le phonosymbolisme, et deuxièmement, il existe, dans les différentes ...
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Challenging the Morpheme: Cross-Linguistic Occurrences of Phonaesthemic Structures
East-West Cultural Passage, 2023 Abstract The article below sets out to demonstrate that a long-time underestimated concept in linguistics, the phonaestheme, may find its rightful place in morphological theory alongside the morpheme, traditionally defined as the smallest linguistic unit carrying meaning.
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Not just form, not just meaning: Words with consistent form-meaning mappings are learned earlier. [PDF]
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2022 Cassani G, Limacher N.
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Affective Congruence between Sound and Meaning of Words Facilitates Semantic Decision. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2018 Aryani A, Jacobs AM.
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How arbitrary is language? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Monaghan P +3 more
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