Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (1)
- Authors
- Brodovich, Olga I.; Davydova, Varvara A.
- Contact information
- Brodovich, Olga I.: Institute of Foreign Languages 13 Linija 12, Vassilievsky Island, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia; ; Davydova, Varvara A.: Institute of Foreign Languages 13 Linija 12, Vassilievsky Island, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia
- Keywords
- phonosemantics; sound symbolism; nomination
- Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of that part of the primary-motivated lexicon which is sound-symbolic as opposed to sound-imitative one. This lexis is difficult to identify in dictionaries of modern languages mostly due to historical changes in words’ form and meaning. The authors used as the source of their material the words of fictional languages because they can observe processes of primary nomination not complicated by further changes. The findings of the authors revealed presence in their material of the same groups of sound-symbolic words which were shown to exist in natural languages. The analysis conducted in the present article allows suggesting a new subdivision of sound-symbolic lexicon based on the semantic side of the nomination process
- Pages
- 19-26
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/69127
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