A comparison of some Southeast Asian ideophones with some African ideophones

Watson, Richard L.

doi:10.1075/tsl.44.29wat

In:Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
[Typological Studies in Language 44] 2001
► pp. 385–405

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A comparison of some Southeast Asian ideophones with some African ideophones

Richard L. Watson | Summer Institute of Linguistics, Nairobi

Published online: 19 December 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.44.29wat

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