The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

M Imai, S Kita - … transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We
review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an …

Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

M Dingemanse - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2018 - pure.mpg.de
Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have
been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as …

Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning

M Imai, S Kita, M Nagumo, H Okada - Cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
Some words are sound-symbolic in that they involve a non-arbitrary relationship between
sound and meaning. Here, we report that 25-month-old children are sensitive to cross …

[图书][B] Sign language phonology

D Brentari - 2019 - books.google.com
A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

How sound symbolism is processed in the brain: a study on Japanese mimetic words

J Kanero, M Imai, J Okuda, H Okada, T Matsuda - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sound symbolism is the systematic and non-arbitrary link between word and meaning.
Although a number of behavioral studies demonstrate that both children and adults are …

[图书][B] Ideophones and the evolution of language

J Haiman - 2018 - books.google.com
Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie
far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are …

Expressiveness and system integration: On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu

M Dingemanse - STUF-Language Typology and Universals, 2017 - degruyter.com
Ideophones are often described as words that are highly expressive and
morphosyntactically marginal. A study of ideophones in everyday conversations in Siwu …

Defining iconicity: An articulation-based methodology for explaining the phonological structure of ideophones

AL Thompson, Y Do - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2019 - hub.hku.hk
Iconicity is when linguistic units are perceived as 'sounding like what they mean,'so that
phonological structure of an iconic word is what begets its meaning through perceived …

Basque ideophones from a typological perspective

I Ibarretxe-Antuñano - … Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Ideophones are described as expressive marked linguistic units with a dramaturgic depictive
function. Although commonly regarded in traditional general linguistics as rare and …

Sound-action symbolism

L Vainio, M Vainio - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent evidence has shown linkages between actions and segmental elements of speech.
For instance, close-front vowels are sound symbolically associated with the precision grip …