Iconic investigations /

This paper proposes an integrated account of the formal and functional non-uniformity exhibited by sound-symbolic words based on a hierarchy of lexical iconicity (i.e., iconicity of words). It is argued that the more iconic a vocalized sign is, the less strongly it is constrained by the linguistic s...

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Other Authors: Elleström, Lars, 1960- (Editor), Fischer, Olga (Editor), Ljungberg, Christina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 12.
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