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Dear Adam — I definitely fall into the category of people you tried to discourage from replying :-) I couldn't resist because it just so happens that I routinely use
<i class="">pitch</i> in my classes to illustrate how lexical meanings are built up from intersecting chains of metaphorical and metonymic extensions. I’m attaching a screenshot of the slide I use for this purpose. Sorry! — Juergen<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 7, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Adam James Ross Tallman <<a href="mailto:ajrtallman@utexas.edu" class="">ajrtallman@utexas.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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I'm wondering how many languages across the world have a word for "pitch". In a meeting the Chacobo once offered a novel word which roughly translated to 'speech's song', joi᷄ quëquëti᷄ but it likely wouldn't be understood without explanation(as far as I know!)
and it's obviously not lexicalized.<br class="">
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I'm wondering what cultures/languages have lexicalized this notion?<br class="">
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best,<br class="">
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p.s. You probably don't have to respond to this if you are going to tell me that some Standard-Average-European language (for example) has a lexicalized word for pitch. Unless you can tell me something about how the notion may have arisen historically.<br class="">
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Friedrich Schiller Universität<br class="">
Department of English Studies<br class="">
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