This paper proposes an integrated account of the formal and functional non-uniformity exhibited by sound-symbolic words based on a hierarchy of lexical iconicity (i.e., iconicity of words). It is argued that the more iconic a vocalized sign is, the less strongly it is constrained by the linguistic system. This crosslinguistic generalization is instantiated by the lexical availability, morphophonology, syntax, semantics, and acquisition of sound-symbolic words.
2016. The Roles of Sound Symbolisms in the Tasting Descriptions. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 31:6 ► pp. AI30-N_1 ff.
2019. Camels, Temples, and Jewels: Representing Middle Eastern Movement in Canadian English. Journal of Intercultural Studies 40:6 ► pp. 772 ff.
Kwon, Nahyun
2018. Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 9:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
McLean, Bonnie
2021. Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic. Linguistic Typology 25:3 ► pp. 507 ff.
Moita, Mara, Ana Maria Abreu & Ana Mineiro
2023. Iconicity in the emergence of a phonological system?. Journal of Language Evolution 8:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Ortega, Gerardo
2017. Iconicity and Sign Lexical Acquisition: A Review. Frontiers in Psychology 8
Ortega, Gerardo & Aslı Özyürek
2020. Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture. Behavior Research Methods 52:1 ► pp. 51 ff.
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