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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Phonetic symbolism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Synonyms: mimologics, phonosemantics
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The phenomenon by which some speech sounds are associated with the meanings they convey, either intrinsically or by a recurring phono-semantic association, or an instance thereof; an ideophone.
speech sound that is neither arbitrary with respect to meaning nor an onomatopoeia that imitates a real sound
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: more specifically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The phenomenon by which some speech sounds are associated with the meanings they convey, either intrinsically or by a recurring phono-semantic association, or an instance thereof; an ideophone.
the property of such a sound or sequence of sounds
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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History
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