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This article reviews the establishment and development of phonosemantics, which is known to be a relatively young field of linguistics. Current issues of this field are analyzed, including the background and causes of iconic vocabulary research, as well as the potential for interaction with other sciences. The purpose of the analysis consists in forming an overview of the historical development of phonosemantics. The results of the research work include the development of phonosemantics, the presentation of its main ideas and research direction. The study also states the perspectives of language iconicity studies and the collaboration of linguistic studies with other branches. It should be underlined that phonosemantics has great research potential not only as a general scientific field, but also as an interdisciplinary research field. The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. However, in recent years, an increasing amount of research has explored the nature of arbitrary relationships between linguistic sounds and semantics. This review aims to show the amount of findings to date and to evaluate different studies devoted to phonological iconicity. Much of the work focuses on onomatopoeias, ideophones, phonesthemes, and symbolism of size and shape. Many of these findings are from a number of different languages, which suggest an intrinsic relationship between attributes. In conclusion, it is worth noting that modern phonosemantic research offers largely theoretical work due to the lack of empirical research.

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