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Review Of The Book "New Ways Of Learning And Teaching: Focus On Technology And Foreign Language Education", Travis Bradley, Lara Lomicka
Review Of The Book "New Ways Of Learning And Teaching: Focus On Technology And Foreign Language Education", Travis Bradley, Lara Lomicka
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The Case For Sound Symbolism, Janis B. Nuckolls
The Case For Sound Symbolism, Janis B. Nuckolls
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proposal that linguistic sounds such as phonemes, features, syllables, or tones can be meaningful, or sound-symbolic, contradicts the principles of arbitrariness and double articulation that are axiomatic to structural linguistics. Nevertheless, a considerable body of research that supports principles of sound symbolism has accumulated. This review discusses the most widely attested forms of sound symbolism and the research programs linked to sound symbolism that have influenced linguists and anthropologists most. Numerous reports of magnitude sound symbolism in the form of experimental studies and comparative surveys have been integrated into a biologically based theory of its motivation. Magnitude sound symbolism also …