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Sound symbolism of expressive verbs in Finnic languages (Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian, Votic)

Author(s) -

Heinike Heinsoo,

Eva Saar

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri journal of estonian and finno-ugric linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.142

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2228-1339

pISSN - 1736-8987

DOI - 10.12697/jeful.2015.6.1.04

Subject(s) - estonian , linguistics , imitation , focus (optics) , vocabulary , meaning (existential) , sound (geography) , sound symbolism , computer science , verb , natural (archaeology) , psychology , history , philosophy , acoustics , social psychology , physics , optics , psychotherapist , archaeology

This article will study language, using the contrastive-descriptive method, as a phonetic imitation of the world around us, and will concentrate on the verb vocabu- lary, based on sound imitation and natural sound imitation, characteristic of the Finnic languages spoken in the region of the Gulf of Finland, i.e. Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian and Votic, with a special focus on verbs expressing sounds produced by inanimate sound generators/sources. The investigation clarifi es the differences between expressive verbs and general vocabulary in terms of phonetic composition, and describes derivation patterns of expressive verbs. In comparisons of the four related languages, the theory of sound symbolism has not been confi rmed. It is almost impossible to fi nd identical expressive lexemes (stems) carrying the same (collocative) meaning in all four closely related languages.

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