Chapter published in:
Operationalizing IconicityEdited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 17] 2020
► pp. 22–38
The relationship between iconicity and systematicity in Korean ideophones
Nahyun Kwon | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
This chapter investigates the relationship between two
forms of non-arbitrariness in Korean ideophones: relative iconicity,
which is a resemblance-based mapping between relations among
multiple forms and relations among multiple meanings (exemplified by
paradigmatic consonantal symbolism), and systematicity, which is a
statistical regularities-based mapping between form and meaning
(exemplified by ideophonic vowel harmony). Using a written corpus of
Korean ideophones, the present study quantifies the number of
variants in consonantal constellations, where larger constellations
are judged to have a higher degree of relative iconicity than
smaller constellations. The results reveal that larger
constellations are more susceptible to the influence exerted by
vowel harmony. This language-internal finding suggests a tight
correlation between relative iconicity and systematicity, and allows
further investigation into its generalizability from a broad
typological perspective.
Published online: 13 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.17.02kwo
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.17.02kwo
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