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Ideophones are words that evoke an idea in sound, often a vivid impression of certain sensations or sensory perceptions, e.g. sound, movement, color, shape, or action. Ideophones are found in many of the world's languages, though they are relatively uncommon in Western languages.〔Nuckolls 2004〕 The word class of ideophones is sometimes called ''phonosemantic'' to indicate that it is not a grammatical word class in the traditional sense of the word (like 'verb' or 'noun'), but rather a lexical class based on the special relation between form and meaning exhibited by ideophones. In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have long been overlooked or treated as mysterious words,〔Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001:2〕 though a recent surge of interest in sound symbolism, iconicity and linguistic diversity has brought them renewed attention.〔Imai et al. 2008, Güldemann 2008, Gasser et al. 2010, Nuckolls 1996〕 ==Characteristics== An often-cited definition of the notion of ideophone is the one by Doke 1935:118: : ''Ideophone'' :‘A vivid representation of an idea in sound. A word, often onomatopoeic, which describes a predicate, qualificative or adverb in respect to manner, color, sound, smell, action, state or intensity.’ Ideophones evoke sensory events. Reduplication figures quite prominently in ideophones, often conveying a sense of repetition or plurality present in the evoked event. A well known instance of ideophones are onomatopoeic words, i.e., words imitating the sound (of the event) they refer to. Some ideophones may be derived from onomatopoeic notions. A case in point is the English ideophonic verb ''to tinkle'', which is likely to be derived from an imitation of a brief metallic sound. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ideophone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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