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Prithwindra Mukherjee, « Motivation du lexique en bengali : onomatopées et autres termes expressifs », La linguistique, ID : 10670/1.qz6n03
Well-known for its poetry, Bengali deserves our attention for several other specific items, such as onomatopœia, or word-formation “by imitation of natural sounds associated with the act or object to be denoted”, as defines The Penguin English Dictionary ; or else, other expressive terms where “choice of words whose sound fits their sense”. Out of a Corpus of 1680 examples gleaned by the author, out of reliable Bengali dictionaries, adding several more from memory of the spoken language, he is grateful to Mme Anne Szulmajster-Celnikier – as we mention later – who has provided her architechtonics of the subject thanks to her familiarity with the theories dear to Professors André Martinet and Claude Hagège.