Typological Observations on Synesthetic Sound Symbolism in the Indigenous Languages of Colombia

 

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著者: Almanza Pumarejo, Linda
フォーマット: artículo original
状態:Versión publicada
出版日付:2025
その他の書誌記述:Synesthetic sound symbolism is identified in the connection between phonetic patterns and non-auditory elements, such as colors, textures, shapes, smells, and flavors. This study analyzes the characteristics of this type of sound association in indigenous languages of Colombia through structural and areal typology criteria. To achieve this, Swadesh lists from 36 languages that met comparable visual criteria were analyzed, along with the acoustic properties of vowels and consonants. The results were gathered to generate maps, proposing two areal sets: the minimum separation between the colombian macroarea and the Guajira Peninsula, and a quadripartite group which is formed by the Wayuunaiki zone, the Vaupés, Andoque, and the western periphery zone; the Gente de Centro (Echeverri, 2022) and Vichada zone, and the set of most of the Andean zone with discontinuous Eastern Amazonian zone. Regarding the structural level, the study finds that voiceless consonants are often used to express smallness, luminosity, and pointed shapes, while open vowels are the most common sound class to represent ideas related to greatness, darkness, and roundness.
国:Portal de Revistas UCR
機関:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
言語:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/63515
オンライン・アクセス:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/63515
キーワード:Indigenous languages of Colombia
sound properties
synesthetic sound symbolism
areal typology
structural typology
Lenguas indígenas de Colombia
propiedades sonoras
simbolismo sonoro sinestésico
tipología areal
tipología estructural