Onomatopoeia and Regular Sound Changes

Flaksman, Maria

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“…Previous research into onomatopoeia mainly dealt with its delimitation in the language system, its scope, and its semiotic nature (e.g., Jakobson 1971;Nöth 1990;Waugh 1994;Nuckolls 1996;Carling and Johansson 2015;Catricalà and Guidi 2015;Körtvélyessy 2020Körtvélyessy , 2021a, its sound-symbolic and phonological characteristics (e.g., Marchand 1959Marchand , 1960Hinton et al 1995;Rhodes 1995;Tsur 2001;Bergen 2004;Ivanova 2006;Voronin 2006;Nuckolls 2010;Assaneo et al 2011;Dingemanse 2011aDingemanse , 2011bDingemanse , 2011cFeist 2013;Fidalgo et al 2018;Körtvélyessy 2020;, the metaphoric/metonymic nature of secondary onomatopoeias (Benczes 2018, Sasamoto 2019, as well as diachronic aspects of onomatopoeias and their lexicalization 4 (Mithun 1982;McMahon 1994;Anderson 1998;Flaksman 2015Flaksman , 2017Flaksman , 2018Flaksman , 2019. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the word-formation capacity of primary onomatopoeia.…”

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Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

Körtvélyessy

Andrej²

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article presents research into derivational properties of onomatopoeias in English and in Slovak. Onomatopoeias are defined narrowly in our approach, being restricted to the direct imitation of sounds of extra-linguistic reality. Our sample of 40 onomatopoeic words consists of two sound types: the sounds of animals and the sounds resulting from various falls, strokes, and bursts. A derivational network was produced for each such word. The evaluation parameters comprise derivational capacity, maximum derivational network, saturation value, number of derivation orders, most productive semantic categories by order of derivation, typical combinations of semantic categories, and derivational processes. An evaluation of the networks enabled us to answer the question of whether onomatopoeias are productive word-formation bases, to compare the two Sound Types, and to compare onomatopoeia-based networks to those based on non-iconic vocabulary. These results contribute to a better understanding of the word-formation systems in the compared languages and of the status of onomatopoeias with regard to non-iconic vocabulary.

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Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

Körtvélyessy

Andrej²

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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In search of a semiotic model for onomatopoeia

Körtvélyessy

2024

Folia Linguistica

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In recent years, numerous publications on onomatopoeia have discussed this class of words either separately or as a part of a broader class of ideophones. Those focused on onomatopoeia usually provide a language-specific description primarily based on phonological, morphological and/or syntactic characteristics. Semiotically oriented papers generally discuss the nature of onomatopoeia against the background of Saussure’s conception of arbitrariness. What is missing is the representation of onomatopoeia in the main semiotic models. Therefore, this paper outlines the fundamental semiotic models and adapts them to capture the class of onomatopoeia. The paper covers Saussure’s dyadic model of linguistic sign, the triadic models of Peirce and Ogden and Richards, and a cognitive onomasiological model proposed by Horecký. The latter’s advantage is that it is a dynamic model with potential for adaptation to various word-formation processes, including onomatopoeia-formation.

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Sounds of Nature and Sound of Speech in Associative Mechanisms of Phrase Formation

Nikitina,

Rogaleva,

Timofeeva

2023

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The article deals with the sound-visual mechanisms of phrase formation, which are not described in the phonosemantic and linguoculturological aspects. The study is conducted on the material of comparative phraseological units (figurative comparisons) that reflect the sound of speech. In accordance with the goal, their motivational models are revealed and methods of vocabulary representation are developed. To achieve the goal, methods of phonosemantic, component, linguoculturological analysis, methods of structural-semantic modeling and lexicographic design are used. It has been established that most of the sound-visual comparative phraseological units are based on associations that connect the acoustic characteristics of speech with the sounds of the animal world — the voices of birds and mammals. The models of metaphorical transfer and the most productive zoolexemes involved in the acts of formation of phraseological units in this sphere are revealed. The parameters of assessment of sounding speech relevant for the listener and the axiological orientation of the corresponding figurative comparisons are determined. The possibilities of representation of sound-visual comparative phraseological units in the thesaurus-type dictionary with the alphabetic-rod arrangement of the material and in the educational discursive-type dictionary, which implements the author’s methods of linguoculturological commenting and etymological paraphrasing, are shown. The results of the study will be useful in the development of theoretical problems of phrase formation, and can be used in the practice of academic and educational lexicography.

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Onomatopoeia and Regular Sound Changes

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

In search of a semiotic model for onomatopoeia

Sounds of Nature and Sound of Speech in Associative Mechanisms of Phrase Formation

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