Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as linguists make them out to be?

Newman, Paul

doi:10.1075/tsl.44.20new

In:Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
[Typological Studies in Language 44] 2001
► pp. 251–258

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Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as linguists make them out to be?

Paul Newman | Indiana University

Published online: 19 December 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.44.20new

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2014. Interleaving. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 189 ff.

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2014. Process morphology. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 60 ff.

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2014. Morphologically derived environment effects. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 242 ff.

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2014. Introduction. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 1 ff.

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2014. When phonology interferes with morphology. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 281 ff.

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2014. Reduplication. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 114 ff.

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2014. Conclusion. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 373 ff.

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2014. Prosodic templates. In The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, ► pp. 84 ff.

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