A willy-nilly look at Lai ideophones

This is an investigation into an unusual type of lexeme in Lai Chin, the ideophone. Similar items in other languages have gone by other names elsewhere: "expressives" in Semai (Diffloth 1976, 1979), as well as "phonaesthetic words" (Henderson 1965), "impressifs" (Durand...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patent, Jason D.
Other Authors: University of California, Berkeley
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178154