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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature of non-arbitrary relations between linguistic sounds and semantics.This ...
Markus Conrad +2 more
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Phonaesthemes: non-arbitrariness in the mental lexicon? [PDF]
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire Du Monde Anglophone, 2012 For the most part, the sounds of words in a language are arbitrary, given their meanings. But in fact, there are two ways in which words can be non-arbitrary.
Benjamin Bergen
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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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دلالة الصوت اللغوي في اللغة العربية
الأستاذ, 2019 Phonaesthemes are a set of sound-inspired meanings in a language. They represent words, nouns, adjectives, or verbs whose general meaning is related. The present paper sheds light on this area by investigating phonaesthemes in Standard Arabic through a ...
Asst. Prof. Mohammed Nasser Abdulsada
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E-REA, 2010 Drawing on key concepts of so-called ‘cognitive’ linguistics, I suggest that there exists a conceptual coherence within each of three heuristically constituted word classes (‘bl- / kn- / sk- words’).
Line ARGOUD
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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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Submorphémique et corporéité cognitive
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2012 Speech has long been regarded as the encoding of ideas, and languages as formalisms providing conceptual and representational patterns mobilized by a given cultural language-speaking community for the encoding of ideas with a view to communicative ...
Didier Bottineau
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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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