Bibliographies

Bibliographies of Sound-Symbolic Phenomena (December 2010 version)

    Bib A: Japanese (722 items)

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    Bib B: Other languages (1038 items)

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See also

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Ideophones. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Statistics

The following figures show the number of studies in each category in each decade. "Studies" include monographs, articles, conference presentations, etc. with various degrees of attention to sound-symbolic phenomena, and the categorization is quite rough.

Figure 1. Growth of sound symbolism research in the 20th century

Figure 2. Growth of sound symbolism research in non-Japanese languages in the 20th century

Note: Crosslinguistic/language-general studies and studies on iconicity and sign languages were excluded.