0 the formation or use of words that sound like the things which they describe, for example ‘hiss’ sounds like a snake -- onomatopia
the use of onomatopoeia in poetry.
Convergence cannot always be sharply distinguished from universal sound symbolism; most of these cases concern onomatopoeia.
The percentages of each lexical class (including exclamations and onomatopoeia) across the three age groups were calculated.
In the rest of the chapter, he discusses the processes of reduplication and onomatopoeia.
Its broad range of phonemes, enormous lexicon, inherent onomatopoeia and morphological laxness offer a tremendous variety of creative possibilities.
Several studies of onomatopoeia and sound symbolism have shown that the phonetic properties of sound cannot be written off.
Expressions (wear one's heart on one's sleeve), collocations (a crying shame), onomatopoeia (cuckoo), abbreviations (wc), and proper names (hoover) need to be learned.
The mismanagement of syntax arid style, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the finer nuances of word order can completely change the import of a sentence in some languages.
Hiragana represent grammatical morphemes and function words; katakana transcribe loan words as well as onomatopoeia.
