Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives

Akita, Kimi; Pardeshi, Prashant

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“…The integration takes place at all levels-phonological (acquiring conventional phonetic structure), morphological (acquiring inflectional morphology or becoming a content part of speech-verb, noun, adjective, etc.-by conversion), and syntactic (acquiring a syntactic function in a sentence). Poorly integrated imitative words are interjections (or ideophones-in some languages [2]) often exhibiting violation of phonotactic, phonological, etc., rules of a given language [5,55]. For this reason, SD-1 words are less likely to come up in formalized written context than more de-iconized words in the same frequency band.…”

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“…Such words are believed to constitute a minority in the language [3]. However, the recent research [4,5] has shown that iconic words are by no means language marginalia. The facts that (1) they are found in languages all over the globe [6], (2) in ancient and reconstructed languages [7], (3) in invented languages [8] and (4) in child speech [9][10][11] suggest that iconicity is a fundamental aspect of the human communicative system.…”

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Iconicity and Second Language Visual Perception: A Psycholinguistic Study of English Imitative Words at Different De-iconization Stages

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The study of iconicity, i.e., of a link between form and meaning in a word based on similarity, has gained increased attention in recent years. Although recent research has shown an important role of iconicity for first language acquisition, its role for the second language (L2) acquisition is still unclear, neither is it understood how the perception of imitative words depends on their iconic expressiveness. We applied a multivariate experimental plan with repeated measurements and experimental and control stimuli to study visual recognition of English iconic (imitative) words at four stages of de-iconization (SDs) by native speakers of Russian (N = 106) using a lexical decision task. The participants were presented with an experimental stimulus and had to decide as rapidly as possible whether a visually presented letter string was a word or not. The method of diachronic evaluation was used to group the pre-selected imitative words into four categories where SD-1 words are the most vivid imitative words with an evident (iconic) link between form and meaning, and SD-4 words are the words which have lost this link in the course of language (semantic and phonetic) evolution. The findings have revealed that proceeding speed and accuracy rates are strongly connected to SDs: the less iconic (imitative) a word is, the faster and more accurately it is recognized; most iconic words (SD-1) are characterized by the slowest RTs and lowest accuracy rates. The results suggest that iconicity does affect visual recognition of imitative words by second language learners.

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“… 1 Although there is a lot of crossover in these terms (Akita & Pardeshi 2019) the variation is predominately regional (Dingemanse 2018). Ideophones have been used in African and American contexts, and mimetics for East Asian languages such as Korean or Japanese.…”

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Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari

Choksi

2019

Lang. Soc.

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Present in many of the world's languages, expressives (also called ideophones or mimetics) are commonly discussed as iconic ‘depictions’ of speaker's sensual experiences. Yet anthropologists and linguists working with these constructions have noticed that they also index ‘social types’ that perdure across interactional events. This article analyzes the semiotic relation between depiction and social stereotypes embedded in expressive use by examining video data from interviews with speakers of Mundari, an expressive-rich Austro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern India. Presenting interview data taken from both lab-based elicitations as well as ethnographic interviews in Mundari-speaking villages, the article claims that speakers deploy multimodal resources such as gesture and gaze in concert with expressives in order to re-intepret social indexes as felt, embodied experiences (rheme) while also juxtaposing these experiences with elements in the immediately perceptible material world (dicent). The article also addresses issues of ethics, agency, and materiality entailed by multimodal expressive depiction. (Ideophones, multimodality, materiality, embodiment, semiotics)*

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2022

The Language of Food in Japanese

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Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives

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Iconicity and Second Language Visual Perception: A Psycholinguistic Study of English Imitative Words at Different De-iconization Stages

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