What do ideophones signify? From early on, the link of ideophones to sensory perception has been recognized, but it has rarely been explicitly investigated. This chapter reports on a series of elicitation tasks that systematically probes a number of perceptual domains: tactile texture, taste, colour, shape, sound, and smell. Though not all domains are equally elaborated, ideophones emerge as a key expressive resource in sensory talk.
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Figure 8.1. Response types in the Language of Perception tasks
