The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese by Shoko Hamano

The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese

Shoko Hamano

264 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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This book is the first theoretical study of sound-symbolic expressions in Japanese commonly known as mimetic words. It identifies stringent linguistic constraints on these expressions and demonstrates that they form an intricate linguistic system ...

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