Skase Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

ISSN 1336-782X
VOLUME 22 - 2025 No. 2
SPECIAL NUMBER

Studies in Lexical Iconicity

Table of Contents
(full PDF file available here)

1. Maria A. Flaksman and Pius W. Akumbu
Introduction
2
2. Aurore Montebran
Sound symbolism in Mankanya
12
3. Ekaterina Gruzdeva
Echoes of meaning: Exploring iconicity in Nivkh
29
4. Guillaume Guitang and Pius W. Akumbu
Gizey onomatopoeias
48
5. Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera
Animal-oriented interjections in the languages of the Iberian Peninsula
61
6. Maria Flaksman and Alexander Kilpatrick
Against the tide: How language-specificity of imitative wordsincreases with time (as evidenced by Surprisal)   
78
7. Ronald Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare
Asymmetry among vocal sounds for non-vocal sound experiences: An Edoid case
94
8. Thomas Van Hoey
Dynamic extensions of iconic form-meaning mappings in visual media, viewed through a prismatic lens
110
9. Valeria Malysheva
Onomatopoeia in phonaesthemic groups: An interplay between iconicity and systematicity
128

Board of Consulting Editors:
Nana Aba Amfo
, University of Ghana; Arthur Abramson, University of Connecticut, USA; Jean Aitchison, Oxford University, United Kingdom; AlBataineh, Hussein, Arab Open University, Kuwait; Miroslav Cerny, Ostrava University, Czech Republic; Mary Esther Dakubu, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana; Jan Don, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands; Helen Eaton, SIL International; Martin Everaert, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Roswitha Fischer, University of Regensburg, Germany; Christina Gagne, University of Alberta, Canada; Renáta Gregová, P. J. Safarik University Kosice, Slovak Republic; Ján Horecký, Professor Emeritus, Slovak Republic († 2006); Denis Jamet, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France; Stanislav Kavka, Ostrava University, Czech Republic; Robert Kieltika, University of Rzeszow, Poland; Peter Koch, Tuebingen University, Germany; Lívia Körtvélyessy, P. J. Safarik University Kosice, Slovak Republic; Viktor Krupa, Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences; Merja Kyto, Uppsala University, Sweden; Jean-Rémi Lapaire, Bordeaux University, France; Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire, USA; Leonhard Lipka, Professor Emeritus, Germany; Gina Maciuca, University of Suceava, Rumania; Alec Marantz, MIT Linguistics and Philosophy, Cambridge, USA; Edith A. Moravcsik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Makiko Mukai, Kochi Women's University, Japan; Ad Neeleman, University College London, United Kingdom; Arne Olofsson, Göteborg University, Sweden; Dorota Osuchowska, University of Rzeszow, Poland; Pingali Sailaja, University of Hyderabad, India; Dana Slančová, Prešov University, Slovak Republic; Višnja Josipović Smojver, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Slávka Tomaščíková, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic; Salvador Valera, University of Jaen, Spain, Jochen Zeller, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa