The Significance of Onomatopoeia in Languagization: From the perspective of sound-meaning relationship under dynamic system principle

Qinghua Ma
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Abstract

: Onomatopoeia acts as the first step of linguistic expression, and is an important sign of quasi-language evolving into real language (i.e. languagization). It may gradually lose its onomatopoeic characteristics as it is adapted to the systematicity of language. As a primitive word class, typical onomatopoeia is inevitably constrained by language system in many aspects, while still maintaining its deeper nature beyond the system. Many non-onomatopoeias still carry onomatemes to various degree and manners, among which the imitation of all human sounds and some sounds of external world possess a linguistic universality. Various factors such as the equivalent selectivity, versatility and the variability of onomatopoeias keep interacting and make the whole vocabulary system be chaotic. The model of onomatopoeia structures can be deemed as an imitative target or a structural meme of other models of non-onomatopoeia structures. This paper mainly aims at demonstrating how onomatopoeias assist language in becoming systematic, and how they are constrained by general knowledge and existing language foundations.
拟声词在语言化中的意义:从动态系统原理下的音义关系看
拟声词是语言表达的第一步,是准语言进化为真实语言(即语言化)的重要标志。当它适应语言的系统性时,它可能会逐渐失去拟声特征。典型拟声词作为一个原始的词类,在许多方面都不可避免地受到语言系统的制约,同时仍保持着其超越系统的深层本质。许多非拟声词仍然带有不同程度和方式的拟声词,其中对所有人类声音和某些外部世界声音的模仿具有语言的普遍性。拟声词的等效选择性、通用性和变异性等多种因素不断相互作用,使整个词汇系统混乱不堪。拟声词结构模型可以被视为其他非拟声词模型的模仿目标或结构模因。本文主要旨在展示拟声词如何帮助语言变得系统,以及它们如何受到一般知识和现有语言基础的约束。
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