1. Akita, Kimi. 2008. Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon. Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS) 34(1): 1–12.
2. Akita, Kimi. 2011. Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words. In Semblance and signification [Iconicity in language and literature 10], ed. Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer, and Christina Ljungberg, 3–18. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
3. Amanuma, Yasushi (ed.). 1974. Giongo/gitaigo jiten [A dictionary of mimetic words]. Tokyo: Tokyodo.
4. Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco. 2010. Coordinating compounds. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(9): 863–873.
5. Asano, Tsuruko (ed.). 1978. Giongo/gitaigo jiten [A dictionary of mimetic words]. Tokyo: Kadokawa.