This is an ever-growing annotated list of terms that have been used for marked words that vividly depict sensory events in those languages which have a systematized inventory of such forms (I may change my mind on that latter restriction). It will be edited, wiki-like, when I come across a new term or a good citation for one I already knew. Feel free to send in your suggestions.
- ideophone
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- Lautbild
- Westerman 1907, 1927, 1937
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- onomatopoeia
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- onomatopoeic vocable
- Stapleton
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- sound-picture
- see Lautbild
- vocal image
- Lévy-Bruhl 1910; Werner 1919:194
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- vocal gesture, descriptive
- Lévy-Bruhl 1910 as cited in Werner 1919:189
- ‘They are not, properly speaking, onomatopoeias, but rather descriptive vocal gestures.’
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