Conventional sound symbolism in terms for organs of speech: A cross-linguistic study

Folia Linguistica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 199-214

  Urban, Matthias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body part terms; Iconicity; Lexical typology; Sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051857338     PISSN: 01654004     EISSN: 16147308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/flin.2011.007     Document Type: Article

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