World-view of protolanguage speakers as inferred from semantics of sound symbolic words: A case of Japanese mimetics

The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-38

  Kita, Sotaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-79102-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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