Fonosemantika: tyrėjai, tyrimai, patirtys

Like most other fields of modern research phonosemantic in particular finds its beginings in the Ancient philosophy works. The first work that took a more modern, critical approach to the subject was Plato's Cratylus dialogue. The subject was sporadically discussed in philosophial texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the 19th century Humboldt offered a very clear description of the conception of the phonosemantic process. Other numerous scholars were interested in the problem, such as Gabelentz, Sapir, Grammond, Jakobson, etc. The most influently phonosemanticists of the present are working in the fields of linguistic iconism, poetry, semantic association of clusters, african ideophones, etc. In the last decade of the 20th century the field of phonosemantic was developed significantly