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Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Uusküla, Mari

doi:10.12697/jeful.2014.5.2.00

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“…Likewise, it is quite possible that monolexemic color terms are historically derived from concrete referents as well, but the etymological distance could be too great or the historical development of a language too poorly understood to link the referents to the color word. For example, many basic color words in Indo-European (perhaps the most historically well-documented language family in the world) and several other language families can be traced back to concrete referents, such as the meaning ‘red’ from rust or worms and the meaning ‘green’ from plants (Derksen, 2008, 2010; Kroonen, 2010; Matisoff, 2011; Metsmägi, Sedrik, & Soosaar, 2012). Thus, color terms generally regarded as monolexemic can still carry phonetic similarities to their original referents.…”

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Color sound symbolism in natural languages

Johansson

Anikin²,

Aseyev

2019

Lang. cogn.

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This paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound symbolic patterns in the words for colors in natural languages. Building upon earlier perceptual experiments, we hypothesized that sonorous and bright phonemes would be over-represented in the words for bright and saturated colors. This hypothesis was tested on eleven color words and related concepts (red–green, yellow–blue, black–white, gray, night–day, dark–light) from 245 language families. Textual data was transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and each phoneme was described acoustically using high-quality IPA recordings. These acoustic measurements were then correlated with the luminance and saturation of each color obtained from cross-linguistic color-naming data in the World Color Survey. As expected, vowels with high brightness and sonority ratings were over-represented in the words for colors with high luminance, while sonorous consonants were more common in the words for saturated colors. We discuss these results in relation to lexicalization patterns and the links between iconicity and perceptual cross-modal associations.

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Color sound symbolism in natural languages

Johansson

Anikin²,

Aseyev

2019

Lang. cogn.

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“… Polytrichum commune björnblomma bear flower Swedish Northern Dalecarlia ? [ 48 ] Polytrichum commune Hedw. Polytrichum commune L. byönnmuoså bear moss Swedish Älvdalen shape [ 223 ] Polytrichum commune Hedw.…”

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“…Another Estonian name is karuohakas ( Anchusa officinalis L., Cirsium lanceolatum Scop.) which have nothing to do with bear either ( karu , karune and karv [ 48 ]). Still, all the aforementioned and similar cases were included into Table 1 and considered during counting the number of phytonyms.…”

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The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models

Kolosova

Svanberg

Kalle

et al. 2017

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Ethnolinguistic studies are important for understanding an ethnic group’s ideas on the world, expressed in its language. Comparing corresponding aspects of such knowledge might help clarify problems of origin for certain concepts and words, e.g. whether they form common heritage, have an independent origin, are borrowings, or calques. The current study was conducted on the material in Slavonic, Baltic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugrian, Turkic and Albanian languages. The bear was chosen as being a large, dangerous animal, important in traditional culture, whose name is widely reflected in folk plant names. The phytonyms for comparison were mostly obtained from dictionaries and other publications, and supplemented with data from databases, the co-authors’ field data, and archival sources (dialect and folklore materials). More than 1200 phytonym use records (combinations of a local name and a meaning) for 364 plant and fungal taxa were recorded to help find out the reasoning behind bear-nomination in various languages, as well as differences and similarities between the patterns among them. Among the most common taxa with bear-related phytonyms were Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng., Heracleum sphondylium L., Acanthus mollis L., and Allium ursinum L., with Latin loan translation contributing a high proportion of the phytonyms. Some plants have many and various bear-related phytonyms, while others have only one or two bear names. Features like form and/or surface generated the richest pool of names, while such features as colour seemed to provoke rather few associations with bears. The unevenness of bear phytonyms in the chosen languages was not related to the size of the language nor the present occurence of the Brown Bear in the region. However, this may, at least to certain extent, be related to the amount of the historical ethnolinguistic research done on the selected languages.

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“…Other meteorological predicates with PSs have more general meaning: tulema 'come' (52) or olema 'be ' (53). Among these, sadama is an old stem that expresses snowing and raining in all Baltic-Finnic languages; it is an inherited stem reconstructed back at least to the Proto-Finnic-Sami period (Metsmägi, Sedrik and Soosaar 2012).…”

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Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

Lindström

2017

ESUKA-JEFUL

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Abstract. Nominative-partitive alternation in subject marking in Estonian occurs mainly in existentials and related constructions. The paper measures the overall frequency of use of partitive subjects (PS) in Estonian dialects to explore whether differences are found, which can be explained by language contacts. Second, it provides an overview of constructions where PSs occur in Estonian dialects. The data is obtained from the Corpus of Estonian Dialects (12 subdialects, 1517 instances of PS usage). The results show that in usage frequency of PSs, Estonian dialects are relatively uniform and there are no striking differences between the dialects. The use of PSs was less frequent in Northern-Seto (a South-Estonian subdialect, in the Russian contact area), where the use of PSs is more tightly associated with negative clauses than it is in other dialects. Negation is also generally the most powerful factor conditioning the use of PSs (explains 52% of the usages of PSs).

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Color sound symbolism in natural languages

Color sound symbolism in natural languages

The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models

Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

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