The Significance of Onomatopoeia in Languagization: From the perspective of sound-meaning relationship under dynamic system principle

Onomatopoeia acts as the first step of linguistic expression, and is an important sign of quasi-language evolving into real language (i.e. languagization). It may gradually lose its onomatopoeic characteristics as it is adapted to the systematicity of language. As a primitive word class, typical o...

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Main Author: Ma Qinghua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2018-06-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=739&