onomatopoeia

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  onomatopoeia — words that imitate sounds — requires language to operate. Without language, sound-imitating words cannot function.

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  Onomatopoeia is a specific kind of symbol — a word whose form iconically represents its referent sound. Direction specific→general (Law 9). A competent speaker calls onomatopoeia 'a symbol'.

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  Law 7 which-came-first, from independent historical reasoning (not the graph's epoch). sound's accepted definition carves the domain of mechanical pressure waves propagating through a material medium, as human disciplines map it for perception, measurement, and production. onomatopoeia's accepted definition carves the iconic lexical device whose first parameter is 'the phonetic shape of the word is motivated by the sound it denotes (iconic, not arbitrary)' — 'buzz,' 'hiss,' 'clang.' The acoustic events preceded the lexicon: onomatopoeic words were coined by mapping perceived sound events onto a language's phonological inventory, and the definition's own persistence mechanism is 'cross-linguistic borrowing of iconic forms.' Y (the acoustic domain the sound entry names) existed first and fed into X (the iconic lexicon); the direction is origin, not dependency — onomatopoeia operates today without the sound entry, and the sound domain is not built for the sake of onomatopoeia.

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  Pinned sense: onomatopoeia as the iconic lexical device — a word whose phonetic form is motivated by the sound it denotes. The accepted entry scope itself calls it a figure of speech. The figure-of-speech definition carves: a linguistic device deploying words in non-literal OR specially structured ways, where the deviation (1) is systematic from standard usage and (2) follows a recognizable pattern shared across speakers. Onomatopoeia departs from the standard arbitrary form-meaning mapping via a systematic, speaker-shared pattern — the iconic sound-to-form correspondence (buzz, hiss, clang) that the accepted onomatopoeia definition lists as its first parameter. Nearest kind: its other accepted instance edge, symbol, is the broader kind; figure-of-speech is the nearer linguistic kind, with no accepted intermediate rung between iconic vocabulary and figure-of-speech. Law 9: a specific kind of figure of speech.

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