The sound-symbolic system of Japanese

By Shoko Hamano. 2000

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Phonetic Detail and Dimensionality in Sound-shape Correspondences: Refining the Bouba-Kiki Paradigm (2014, background): “Work on sound symbolism in the lexicon has provided evidence for the presence of sound symbolism in natural language itself, as in the naming of plants and animals in Huambisa (Berlin, 1994) and mimetics in Japanese (Hamano, 1998), for example.”
Gender differences in new brand name response (2009, background): “Subsequent research on sound symbolism has been conducted on languages from around the world—e.g., French (Chastaing 1958), Japanese ( Hamano 1986 ), and African languages (Samarin 1967).”
Ways of Crossing a Spatial Boundary in Typologically Distinct Languages (2015, background): “For example, the availability of ideophones in some V-languages, such as Japanese or Basque, provides possibilities for greater encoding of manner information in these languages through sound symbolisms compared to other V-languages (Hamano, 1998; Ibarretxe-Antunano, 2004; Kita, 1997).”
What makes manner of motion salient? Explorations in linguistic typology, discourse, and cognition (2006, unknown): “Romance languages are verb-framed and Germanic languages are satellite-framed, but the typology is much broader, as suggested by the following partial crosslinguistic summary: Verb-framed languages  Romance  Greek  Semitic  Turkic  Basque  Korean  Japanese Satellite-framed languages  Germani”