İsomorphic and Allomorphic Features of Iconic Units (Based on Turkish Onomatopes)
ANNA VICTOROVNA KRASNOVA
Abstract
Despite the long history of studying the iconicity phenomenon, the onomatopoeic and sound symbolic words have acquired the status of linguistic universal in a relatively recent past. In the Turkish linguistic tradition, the question of iconic vocabulary was addressed within the framework of morphology, while the question of correlation between the meaning of a unit and its acoustic image stayed in the background. In the middle of the twentieth century, researcher S.V. Voronin made a clear distinction between units that reflect a sound and those which sphere of motivation in a broad sense can be formulated as a non-acoustic, and also proposed his own classification of iconic elements based on the type of the reflected sound. This classification principle made it possible to apply the classification to analyse iconic vocabulary of any language of the world, and also to reveal isomorphic and allomorphic features of the given units of the language considered in comparison with the canonical types indicated in the classification.