Sound Symbolism and Its Syntactic Function in Japanese Post-positional Particles
Native speakers of Japanese tend to verbally describe, specify, and qualify human action and natural phenomena by means of words comprised of seemingly abstract sounds, which suggests that there exists in Japanese symbolic meanings in various sounds which underscore the lexical meaning of those word...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1999-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/351 |