Examples of onomatopoeic

• English is a very onomatopoeic language and perfectly suited to poetry.

• Cuckoo and chiffchaff are perhaps the best known examples of onomatopoeic bird names.

• He commented on the poet's onomatopoeic use of language.

• During the same period, onomatopoeic terms, proper names and interactive terms (words with social or pragmatic function) decreased significantly.

• However, do they have other significances; mimetic (onomatopoeic) for example?

• We must also bear in mind that by excluding all onomatopoeic expressions and reduplicative child words from the analysis we inescapably leave something essential behind.

• In this view, most day-to-day representations would be something like onomatopoeic symbols - with both perceptual and nonperceptual aspects.

• Onomatopoeic terms form the only exception to this, as their proportion does not undergo a significant change.