Editors and contributors -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Introduction ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectives / Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi -- Part I. Phonology and morphology: 1. 'Ideophone' as a comparative concept / Mark Dingemanse -- 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese / Haruo Kubozono -- 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics / Shoko Hamano -- 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English / Nahyun Kwon -- 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspective / Kiyoko Toratani -- Part II. Semantics and pragmatics: 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones: The motion semantic grid / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano -- 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua / Janis B. Nuckolls -- 8. The power of 'not saying who' in Czech onomaopoeia / Masako U. Fidler -- 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese / Kimi Akita -- Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism: 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese / Keiko Murasugi -- 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers' multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency / Noriko Iwasaki and Keiko Yoshioka -- 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism / G. Tucker Childs -- Name index-- Subject index -- Language index.Includes bibliographical references and index.