Table of contents
Editors and contributors
Abbreviations and symbols
Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectives
Part I.Phonology and morphology
Chapter 1.‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept
Chapter 2.The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese
Chapter 3.Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics
Chapter 4.Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English
Chapter 5.Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspective
Part II.Semantics and pragmatics
Chapter 6.Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones: The motion semantic grid
Chapter 7.The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua
Chapter 8.The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeia
Chapter 9.Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese
Part III.Language acquisition and multilingualism
Chapter 10.The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese
Chapter 11.Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency
Chapter 12.Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism
Subject index
Language index
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