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Sound Symbolism and Motion in Basque

By Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano

Sound Symbolism and Motion in Basque Books

Sound Symbolism and Motion in Basque

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Sound symbolism studies the motivated relationship between sound and meaning. Although in traditional linguistic theory (Saussure 1916), this relation is assumed to be arbitrary, several studies in this field (Abelin 1999, Hamano 1998, Hinton et al. 1994, Nuckols 1996, Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001a) have shown that there is a non-arbitrary element in the way some meanings are linked to some sounds, as well as some sounds are linked to some meanings. Furthermore, this relation seems to a universal phenomenon; that is, all languages have sound symbolic words in their lexicons; the difference is that some languages are more prone to sound symbolic formations than others.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
90
Publication Date:
2006
Publisher:
LINCOM EUROPA
ISBN10:
3895863181
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