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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Ideophones
The phenomenon of ideophonic pairing in The phenomenon of ideophonic pairing in Igbo

Any linear repeat or doubling of a lexical item in the Igbo language is subsumed under reduplication, which is indeed a very important mechanism in the language (Anagbogu 1995). A closer look at specific Igbo language data, coupled with a comparison with the cross-linguistic types of reduplication identified by Rubino (2005), reveals a particular pattern that does not seem to fit into the cross-linguistic types. It involves a form of reduplication, but with the difference that there is always a high tone base that is not simply reduplicated; instead, a low tone is impose on the reduplicant, with an attendant semantic change that contrasts with the semantics of the high tone base.
This paper explores this peculiar pattern as a special case of ideophonic pairing. The transparency of the mechanism is most obvious in sound ideophones, but is also to be found in other domains that go beyond sound symbolism, like in some fixed expressions and nouns.

En Igbo, toute répétition d’une unité lexicale est incluse dans le domaine du redoublement morphologique, qui est en effet un important mécanisme dans la langue (Anagbogu 1995). Une analyse plus détaillée des données linguistiques de cette langue, alliée aux types de redoublement identifiés dans diverses langues du monde par Rubino (2005), révèle un modèle qui ne semble pas se conformer aux types observés par ce dernier. Ce modèle implique une forme de redoublement, se distinguant par le fait qu’il existe toujours une base ayant un ton haut qui n’est pas tout simplement redoublée, mais où au contraire un ton bas s’impose au terme redoublé, accompagné d'un changement sémantique qui contraste avec le sens du radical ayant un ton haut.
Cet article traite ce modèle particulier, comme étant un cas spécial d’association idéophonique. La transparence de ce mécanisme est le plus marquée au niveau des sons idéophoniques. Par ailleurs, on le retrouve aussi dans des domaines qui dépassent le cadre du symbolisme des sons, parmi lesquels les expressions fixes et les noms.

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Created 2015-Feb-13
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Author Chinedu Uchechukwu
Created by Hasiyatu Abubakari
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