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A tour of ideophones How Siwu speakers use vivid sensory language

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About 30 such word constellations in a corpus of 350+ Siwu ideophones (with on average 2 members) 71 out of 353 ideophones (about 20%) partake in this kind of phonestheme networks

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In Siwu, gestalt iconicity and relative iconicity are most common, and often they occur together; direct iconicity is limited to onomatopoetic forms, a minority in the inventory. direct Gestalt relative

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Ideophones occur profusely in daily interaction in Siwu in a corpus of 65+ minutes of natural discourse (3000 utterances), there are 240 ideophone tokens chatter, arguments, stories, deliberation, flirtation, gossip, greeting routines, etc.

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Gestalt iconicity (continued) Some examples of gestalt iconic mappings in Siwu ideophones ts ɔ̀kwɛ́tsɔ̀kwɛ́ 'sawing' irregular alternating vowel/tone tsiriri 'squirting', dzururu 'shivering' open-ended ABB reduplication gbadara-gbadara 'walk like a drunk', nyɛmɛrɛ-nyɛmɛrɛ 'wriggle (snake)' gadàm 'stamping' suuu 'burning sensation' mukumuku

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