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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1992
This article examines an iconic form of communication, sound symbolism, which has been associated with oral cultures and implicated in paradigms of primitive mentality. I argue that Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua speakers use sound symbolic iconicity to create interlocutionary involvement.
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This article examines an iconic form of communication, sound symbolism, which has been associated with oral cultures and implicated in paradigms of primitive mentality. I argue that Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua speakers use sound symbolic iconicity to create interlocutionary involvement.
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From symbols to sounds: Visual symbolic information activates sound representations
Psychophysiology, 2004AbstractExpectations on forthcoming sounds can speed up responding to environmental changes and can, thus, be a basis for successful adaptation. The present study investigated event‐related brain potential (ERP) effects in situations where particular sounds were predicted on the basis of preceding visual information.
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1995
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and ...
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Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and ...
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Philosophy of Science, 1941
Like the rest of us, scientists, theologians, and metaphysicians have grown worried about the political affairs of the world, and have set their wits to work to find ways of combating dangers abroad and at home. Some of them organized a Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, and met in the fall ...
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Like the rest of us, scientists, theologians, and metaphysicians have grown worried about the political affairs of the world, and have set their wits to work to find ways of combating dangers abroad and at home. Some of them organized a Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, and met in the fall ...
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Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol
Callaloo, 1987Senses of music in a number of texts is what I'd like to addressways of regarding and responding to music in a few instances of writings which bear on the subject. This essay owes its title to two such texts, Steven Feld's Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression and Victor Zuckerkandl's Sound and Symbol: Music and the
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2013
Abstract This article seeks to resolve the long-running controversy about “sound symbolism” — that is, the controversy as to whether as phonemes, sound features, and so on can be meaningful apart from the morphemes they are part of. It argues that both opponents and proponents have been partly right and partly wrong.
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Abstract This article seeks to resolve the long-running controversy about “sound symbolism” — that is, the controversy as to whether as phonemes, sound features, and so on can be meaningful apart from the morphemes they are part of. It argues that both opponents and proponents have been partly right and partly wrong.
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2006
The concern to invent and thereafter establish an orthographic system more able to ‘paint’ actual pronunciation than the inherited model was one which, as we have seen, was active and ongoing throughout the first half of the eighteenth century. The problems faced by the schoolmaster in trying to teach pronunciation through the ‘stumbling block’ of the ...
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The concern to invent and thereafter establish an orthographic system more able to ‘paint’ actual pronunciation than the inherited model was one which, as we have seen, was active and ongoing throughout the first half of the eighteenth century. The problems faced by the schoolmaster in trying to teach pronunciation through the ‘stumbling block’ of the ...
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Imitation of Sound, Sound Symbolism, Expression
1979Imitation of sounds as the germ of human speech—Humboldt’s dichotomy—Evolution of onomatopoeia—Traces of sound symbolism in linguistic behavior—“Maluma” and “takete”—Matching experiments in the mother tongue and an unknown second language—Concept of physiognomy—Werner’s theory of symbol formation—Ertel’s psychophonetics.
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