as onomatopoeic words or expressions are attractive, the users of languages in the fields of religion, literature, music, education, linguistics, trade, and so forth wish to utilize them in their utterances. they are more effective and imaginative than the simple words. onomatopoeic words or expressions attach us to the real nature and to our inner senses. this study aims at familiarity with on...

The area of sound symbolism and onomatopoeia is an interesting area for studying the production and interpretation of neologisms in language. One question is whether neologisms are created haphazardly or governed by rules. Another question is how this can be studied. Of the approximately 60 000 words in the Swedish lexicon 1 500 have been judged to be sound symbolic (Abelin 1999). These were an...

This paper presents a simple but effective approach to unknown word processing in Japanese morphological analysis, which handles 1) unknown words that are derived from words in a pre-defined lexicon and 2) unknown onomatopoeias. Our approach leverages derivation rules and onomatopoeia patterns, and correctly recognizes certain types of unknown words. Experiments revealed that our approach recog...

Humans represent sounds to others and receive information about sounds from others using onomatopoeia. Such representation is useful for obtaining and reporting the acoustic features and impressions of actual sounds without having to hear or emit them. But how accurately can we obtain such sound information from onomatopoeic representations? To examine the validity and applicability of using ve...