Was Saussure WRONG? Onomatopoeia versus Ideophones- from mooing to zonking and back again

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A picture is worth a thousand words, but what about words that paint sensory imagery in the minds of those you produce and receive them? These are so-called ideophones, a group of more-or-less iconic words found in natural human languages.

We know onomatopoeia from cows to comics and everything in-between.

Austin specialises in the intersection of cognitive science, anthropology and language sciences, using fieldwork to elucidate the interaction of culture and cognition. He is an ardent fan of poetry, theatre and language-learning. Puns and all forms of humour keep his mind sharp and his spirits high. Austin is an avid collector and taster of teas and other infusions. His masters and internships were completed in the Netherlands (MA from ‪‪@radboud_uni‬ Nijmegen and subsequent research assistantship at ‪‪@leidenhumanities‬ University) and Austria (Austrian Academy of Sciences ‪‪@OEAWVideo‬ ) His recent work has taken him from the edges of Anatolia to the rainforests of the Amazon. He is a former voice-actor and documentary presenter at ‪@kennisclipsradbouduniversi5756‬

Further reading/listening

Introduction to the study of ideophones (presentation excerpt):
   • Introduction to the study of ideophones (p...  

Dingemanse, M., Schuerman, W., Reinisch, E., Tufvesson, S., & Mitterer, H. (2016). What sound symbolism can and cannot do: Testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages. Language, 92(2), e117-e133.

Flaksman, M., Bauer, M., Zirker, A., Fischer, O., & Ljungberg, C. (2017). Iconic treadmill hypothesis. Dimensions of iconicity, 15-38.

Flaksman, M. (2015, April). Old and Modern English Onomatopoeia: Two Different Systems?. In Материалы IV Межвузовской научно-практической конференции «Актуальные проблемы современной лингвистики (pp. 20-21).

Flaksman, M. (2020). Pathways of de-iconization. Operationalizing Iconicity, 17, 75.

Do Sounds Carry Their Own Meanings? Onomatopoeia and Arbitrariness of the Sign - The Ling Space-
   • Do Sounds Carry Their Own Meanings? Onomat...  

Interview with ideophone expert, Dr. Janis Nuckolls -
The South America Podcast: Episode 6 -Janis Nuckolls -
   • The South America Podcast: Episode 6 -Jani...  

Vanja Ković- Neural representations of sound symbolism and conceptual organization:
   • Vanja Ković- Neural representations of sou...  

Easy Japanese 17 - Onomatope -
   • Easy Japanese 17 - Onomatope  

Japanese TOP 10 onomatopoeia you should know!日本語のオノマトペ - Miku Real Japanese -
   • Japanese TOP 10 Onomatopoeia you should kn...  

Tom Scott - Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDIA...

"Why Sound Effect Words Matter—a study of onomatopoeic words in the Quechuan culture." - Janis Nuckolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9E-...

Tod and Daniel Andi, On difference btw ideophone and imitation of agoutis .m4v:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an1x6...

Bodo Winter - Iconicity, not arbitrariness, is a design feature of language - Abralin ao vivo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ETw...

3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran - TED -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2Lw...

Austin Howard: Sound Symbolism in the Turkish Tongue: Ideophone Identification or the Iconicity of a Myth? - Protolang 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILEc...

Fun Language Game! But you'll have to wait for my thesis for the answer! -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stPLY...

Maluma, Takete, Kiki and Bouba Pseudoword Iconicity -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4509S...

Les langues turciques – Murad Suleymanov - | ILARA -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tun8...

Language is Arbitrary? I Wouldn’t Be Saussure: Multimodal Ideophone Guessability -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMsCZ...

ISBCS 2020 - Poster #19 - Austin Howard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8440...

Felix K. Ameka - Linguistic Marginalia and “Grammars of Use” -
   • Felix K. Ameka  

Wesley Dean Tucker - Sound Symbolism for Conlangers -
   • Sound Symbolism (for conlangers)  

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Research Assistant, Universiteit Leiden

Linguistic meaning
Signed languages
Iconicity in language
Language and cognition
Linguistic symbolism
Language development
Cognitive linguistics