Kimi Akita

An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: On the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with special reference to Japanese

Mark Dingemanse, Kimi Akita · Journal of Linguistics · 2016 · 159 citations · Full text

Language Experience, Inverse Relation, Language Variation +24

Semantic Associations Dominate Over Perceptual Associations in Vowel–Size Iconicity

Hideyuki Hoshi, Nahyun Kwon, Kimi Akita et al. · i-Perception · 2019 · 56 citations · Full text

Auditory Imagery, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics +18

Constraints on the semantic extension of onomatopoeia

Kimi Akita · Public Journal of Semiotics · 2013 · 34 citations · Full text

Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science +13

Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English

Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Katerina Kantartzis et al. · PLoS ONE · 2019 · 33 citations · Full text

Novel Words, Psycholinguistics, Language Variation +20

Toward a frame-semantic definition of sound-symbolic words: A collocational analysis of Japanese mimetics

Kimi Akita · Cognitive Linguistics · 2012 · 30 citations

Engineering, Sentence Semantics, Frame-semantic Definition +22