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Acknowledgement: This paper is part of the Project "A Study on Otto Jespersen's Ideas of Phonological Evolution ( 1886-1941 )", supported by National Social Science Foundation of China (16BYY007).
Despite its role in literature, especially in poetics, sound symbolism does not traditionally enjoy a high esteem in linguistics. Ever since the scientific study of language was revolutionized by the Swiss structurali...