Meaning of echoism | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice of creating words or language by imitating sounds from the environment.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“One possibility is that language developed from echoism, i.e. from attempts of early humans to imitate natural sounds and react vocally to emotions.”

“That is the simple account of the motivation for the phenomenon of sound symbolism or echoism.”

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