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使用する際の注意点

Linguists use the concept of sound symbolism as a counterexample to the basic principle that the set of sounds constituting a given word are generally arbitrary (and by implication effectively random) with respect to meaning (as opposed to etymology). Thus, the sound itself can be a nonrandom symbol of meaning. It is often an explanation for the origin of groups of similar words and roots that share similarities which are otherwise difficult to explain by random chance. This can be specific to a language—as in English sneeze, snort, snore, sniff, snuff, snout, snot—or more general, as a linguistic quasi-universal such as the Bouba–Kiki effect. Often the distinction between onomatopoeia and (non-onomatopoeic) sound symbolism is not clear.

派生語

• sound-symbolic

同意語

• phonaesthesia

上位語

• iconicity

下位語

• expression, expressivity
• ideophone
• (any non-arbitrary sound): onomatopoeia
• phonestheme

等位語

• expressive
• imitative
• onomatopoeia

参考

• sound symbolism in the Wiktionary glossary