Bibliography B

A Bibliography of

Sound-Symbolic Phenomena

in Languages Other than Japanese

Update history:

December 2010

May 2009

September 2008

September 2007

See “Bibliography A” for studies focusing on but not necessarily limited to Japanese.

Please feel free to contact me if you find any wrong or missing items.

Kimi Akita

Nagoya University

http://sites.google.com/site/akitambo/

This project is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (#21-2238, “A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity”), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (#24720179, "A frame-semantic study of the peculiarities of sound-symbolic words using audiovisual experiments," 2012-2015), and Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (#FFI2010-14903, “Movimiento y espacio desde la tipologia semantica y su aplicatcion a la traduccion y la adquisicion plazo de ejecución”).

Bibliographies

  • Day, Sean A. Synesthesia bibliography. (http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/syn-bibliography. htm)

  • Iconicity in Language and Literature. 1997-present. Iconicity in language: Bibliography. (http://es-dev.uzh.ch/en/iconicity/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1197027659&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&)

  • Institute of Linguistics, University of Graz. Bibliography of reduplication. (http://reduplication.uni-graz.at/)

  • Magnus, Margaret. 1997-2001. Bibliography of phonosemantics. (http://www.trismegistos. com/MagicalLetterPage/Bibliography.html)

  • Voeltz, Friedrich K. Erhard, and Christa Kilian-Hatz. 2001. Bibliography of ideophone research. In Friedrich K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, eds., Ideophones, pp. 407-423. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  • Wynecoop, Shelly, and Golan Levin. 1996. A bibliography of synesthesia and phonesthesia research. (http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/list_synesthesia_bibliography/)

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Crosslinguistic/Language-General

Sound-symbolic words

  • Bodomo, Adams B. 2006. The structure of ideophones in African and Asian languages: The case of Dagaare and Cantonese. In John Mugane et al., eds., Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives, pp. 203-213. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

  • Brinton, Laurel J. 2005. Lexicalization and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and Wiliam Pagliuca. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World.Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.

  • Conteh-Morgan, Jane. 2006. Oink-Oink and Other Animal Sounds. Peru, IL: Carus Publishing.

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  • Devi, Th. Sarju, and Karumuri Venkata Subbarao. 2003. Reduplication and case copying: The case of lexical anaphors in Manipuri and Telugu. In Ritva Laury, Gerald McMenamin, Shigeko Okamoto, Vida Samiian, and K. V. Subbarao, eds., Perspectives in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of P. J. Mistry, pp. 55-79. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies.

  • Diffloth, Gérard. 1972. Notes on expressive meaning. Papers from the Eighth Regional Meeting, pp. 440-447. The Chicago Linguistic Society.

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  • Evans, Nicholas, and Hans-Jürgen Sasse. 2007. Searching for meaning in the Library of Babel: Field semantics and problems of digital archiving.Archives and Social Studies: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research 1, 0: 63-123.

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  • Golston, Chris, and Elzbieta Thurgood. 2003. Reduplication as echo: Evidence from Bontok and Chumash. In Ritva Laury, Gerald McMenamin, Shigeko Okamoto, Vida Samiian, and K. V. Subbarao, eds., Perspectives in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of P. J. Mistry, pp. 81-105. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies.

  • Hinton, Leanne, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. 1994a. Introduction: Sound-symbolic processes. In Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala, eds., Sound Symbolism, pp. 1-12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Hinton, Leanne, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala, eds. 1994b. Sound Symbolism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Jordan, Dana Hall. 2008. “Clang” Went the Cymbals: An Onomatopoeia Alphabet Book. Norman, OK: Capture Books.

  • Joseph, Brian D. 1997. On the linguistics of marginality: The centrality of the periphery. In Kora Singer, Randall Eggert, and Gregory Anderson, eds.,Papers from the 33rd Regional Meeting, 197-213. The Chicago Linguistic Society.

  • Klamer, Marian. 2002. Semantically motivated lexical patterns: A study of Dutch and Kambera expressives. Language 78, 2: 258-286.

  • Kloe, Donald R. 1977. A Dictionary of Onomatopoeic Sounds, Tones and Noises in English and Spanish Including Those of Animals, Man, Nature, Machinery and Musical Instruments, Together with Some That Are Not Imitative or Echoic. Detroit, MI: Blaine Ethridge.

  • Krifka, Manfred. 2010. A note on an asymmetry in the hedonic implicatures of olfactory and gustatory terms. Ms., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

  • Ling 131 Language & Style. 2002. Sound symbolism checksheet, Lancaster University. (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/topic5a/7soundchecksheet.htm)

  • Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Miller, Frederic P., Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster, eds. 2010. Sound Symbolism. Alphascript Publishing.

  • Nuckolls, Janis B. 1992. Sound symbolic involvement. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2, 1: 51-80.

  • Nuckolls, Janis B. 1999. The case for sound symbolism. Annual Review of Anthropology 28: 225-252.

  • Okamoto, Katsuto. 1988. Onomatope-ni kansuru taisyoo-gengogakuteki koosatu [A contrastive linguistic study of mimetics]. Research Reports of the Kôchi University 37: Humanities: 147-166. Kochi University.

  • Payne, Thomas E. 1997. Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.

  • Plank, Frans. 2005. Delocutive verbs, crosslinguistically. Linguistic Typology 9: 459-491.

  • Potts, Christopher. 2007. The expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics 33: 165-197.

  • Reay, Irene Elizabeth. 1994. Sound symbolism. In Ronald E. Asher, ed., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Volume 8, pp. 4064-4070. Oxford/New York/Seoul/Tokyo: Pergamon Press.

  • Sew, Jyh Wee. 2005. Onomatopoeia. In Philipp Strazny, ed., The Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 2, pp. 796-797. New York: Routledge.

  • Stahlke, Herb. 1991. Disc: Ideophones. LINGUIST List 2.718, 27 October 1991.

  • Surhone, Lambert M., Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken, eds. 2010. Onomatopoeia: Word, Natural Language, Natural Language Processing, Sound Symbolism, Linguistics, Japanese Sound Symbolism, Phonaesthetics, Vocal Learning, Agglutinative Language. Betascript Publishing.

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  • Vajda, Edward J. 2003. Book notice: Ideophones ed. By Friedrich K. Erhard Voeltz and Chirsta Kilian-Hatz. Language 79, 4: 823-824.

  • Verstovšek, Tatjana. 2006. Onomatopoeia: The Most Conspicuous Manifestation of Sound Symbolism. Ph.D. dissertation, Ljubljana.

  • Voegelin, Salome. 2010. Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. London: Continuum.

  • Voeltz, Friedrich K. Erhard, and Christa Kilian-Hatz, eds. 2001a. Ideophones. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  • Voeltz, Friedrich K. Erhard, and Christa Kilian-Hatz. 2001b. Introduction. In Friedrich K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, eds., Ideophones,pp. 1-8. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  • Watson, Richard L. 2001. A comparison of some Southeast Asian ideophones with some African ideophones. In Friedrich K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, eds., Ideophones, pp. 385-406. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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Phonosemantics (crosslinguistic/language-general)

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  • Barsalou, Lawrence W. 1999. Perceptual symbol systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 577-660.

  • Barry, Tom. xxx. Investigating the relationship between language and emotion. Paper presented at xxx.

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  • Beym, Richard. 1986. Phonetics and emotion, I. Quaderni di Semantica 7, 1: 5-13.

  • Birch, David, and Marlowe Erickson. 1958. Phonetic symbolism with respect to three dimensions from the Semantic Differential. The Journal of General Psychology 58: 291-297.

  • Bjursater, Ulla. 2004. Speaking styles and phonetic variation. Term paper for Speech Technology Level 1, autumn 2004. Stockholm: Stockholm University. (available at http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf/NGSLT/gslt_papers_2004/bjursater_termpaper.pdf)

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Iconicity (crosslinguistic/language-general)

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Reduplication (crosslinguistic/language-general)

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Afro-Asiatic

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Altaic

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Australian

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Austro-Asiatic

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Austronesian

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Balto-Slavic

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Basque

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Caucasus

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Dravidian

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English

Sound-symbolic words and iconicity

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Phonosemantics (English)

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Finno-Ugric

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Germanic (Other than English)

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North American

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Papuan

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Pidgins and Creoles

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Romance

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Sign Languages

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Sino-Tibetan

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