Sound symbolism
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Sound symbolism, loosely defined here as motivated linkage of sound and meaning, is a salient property of expressive vocabulary in many languages.
...they are playthings, not the tools of language.
Max Müller, 1862
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Half-baked ideas, raw data, and sometimes a glimmer of insight. The Ideophone is a blog by Mark Dingemanse, PhD fellow in the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Reach me at firstname.lastname@mpi.nl.
Kawu
Damit war auch die Frage nach einem passenden Ort für die Haupt-Station gelöst. Das schön, frei und gesund und doch nicht allzu hoch gelegene Akpafu, die zweitgrößte Stadt in Boem, war der geeignete Ort.
Andreas Pfisterer, 1904, on the place where I do fieldwork.
