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<div>I am very interested in prosodic patterns serving to simultaneously highlight and integrate ideophones with "descriptive" context, so I would love to see a summary of responses and/or more literature hints.</div>
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<div>As a native speaker of German I have observed a particular contour associated with (usually monosyllabic) ideophones<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> denoting a sudden movement or impact (either of these could be metaphorical, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like
_zack_ in the example below</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">).</span></div>
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<div>These <span style="font-size: 14pt;">ideophones</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> behave syntactically like clause-initial adverbs in that they trigger V2, but in addition are accompanied by an extreme high pitch, usually followed by a pause, and the
remainder of the clause has a lower and flat intonation (this is speaking impressionistically, not having done prosodic analysis). The example below is linked to an audio file so it can give you an idea. So far</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I have
not found any literature commenting on this. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Best wishes</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline">Conversation among flat mates:</span></p>
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Wenn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>man<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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(0.42)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> zack (.)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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Zack, one starts off (implementing it)’</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 22 October 2017 19:14<br>
<b>To:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Ideophonic intonation<br>
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<div>I am thinking about writing about ideophones in Seenku (Samogo, Northwestern Mande), and in particular about an ideophonic intonation pattern that I have seen with many different ideophones that I am calling "bouncing ball intonation". Briefly, it is characterized
by repetition of the ideophonic stem/morpheme, slowly at first, then with increasing speed, like a bouncing ball coming to a stop.</div>
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<div>Ideophones are of course often characterized by repetition (reduplication, retriplication) and by unusual prosody, but I am interested in published sources or other cases you know of where there is a larger fixed prosodic or intonational template that
different ideophones can be slotted into and whether any meaning is associated with it.</div>
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<div>Many thanks,</div>
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<div>Laura McPherson</div>
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<div>Dartmouth College</div>
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