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This chapter sets out the research landscape of onomatopoeia, providing a brief summary of research development and history, terminological issues, and functions of onomatopoeia as they are perceived in general. By presenting a range of examples that could pose challenges for the dominant sound symbolic approach, this chapter problematises onomatopoeia and contextualises the approach taken in this study, which seeks to answer the question: What is the role of onomatopoeia in communication and how do we communicate with onomatopoeia?
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Another aspect of studies on onomatopoeia is the relationship to language acquisition (Yoshida 2004; Yoshida and Smith 2003; Maurer et al. 2006; Parault and Schwanenflugel 2006; Haryu and Zhao 2007; Imai et al. 2008; Nygaard et al. 2009; Wrembel 2010; Kantartzis et al. 2011; Laing 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019).
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As I will show in Chap. 4, in some highly lexicalised cases onomatopoeia can go through a regular semantic composition process.
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Sasamoto, R. (2019). Introduction. In: Onomatopoeia and Relevance. Palgrave Studies in Sound. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26318-8_1
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