Chapter 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Abbreviations and symbols ix
5. Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives 1
6. Part I. Phonology and morphology
7. Chapter 1. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept 13
8. Chapter 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese 35
9. Chapter 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics 57
10. Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English 77
11. Chapter 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics 101
12. Part II. Semantics and pragmatics
13. Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones 137
14. Chapter 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua 167
15. Chapter 8. The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeia 199
16. Chapter 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese 229
17. Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism
18. Chapter 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese 251
19. Chapter 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use 265
20. Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism* 303
21. Subject index 323
22. Language index 325