Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)
This is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, Middle Shroud an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan.Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones show consonant and vowel alternations denoting grades of intensity or pitch, and a