The meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20258509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Andrason (0000-0002-8507-9824, University of Cape Town, corresponding author), Admire Phiri (0000-0002-8865-4548, University of the Free State, corresponding author), A M Fehn (0000-0003-2006-6552, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, corresponding author), Anne-Maria Fehn |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-386 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cnj.2023.17 |
| OpenAlex | W4388973688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The present article analyzes the meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao, a Khoe-Kwadi (Kalahari Khoe) language. Making use of a prototype approach to categorization, a corpus of 113 onomatopoeic lexemes were tested for their compliance with the semantic, phonetic, and morphological features associated with the prototype of onomatopoeias in scholarly literature. The evidence demonstrates that Tjwao onomatopoeias tend to instantiate the prototype fully. This signifies, in turn, that, as far as their phonetics and morphology are concerned, Tjwao onomatopoeias tend to be extra-systematic
Categorization · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Natural language processing · Onomatopoeia · Phonetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |