<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Ethnomusicologists know something about this issue, so that could be a place to look. </span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">For example, some African languages (sorry, I know that's vague, my ethnomusicology studies were a long time ago) use 'big' as a metaphor for 'low pitch' and 'small' for 'high pitch', with an obvious physical grounding. Of course 'pitch' itself can be seen as an abstraction from such particularities. This raises the question, do such languages use 'size' as a metaphor for (variable) 'pitch'?</span><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Jack<br></font><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">==============================<br>John W. Du Bois<br>Professor of Linguistics <br>University of California, Santa Barbara<br>Santa Barbara, California 93106<br>USA<br><a href="mailto:dubois@ucsb.edu">dubois@ucsb.edu</a></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 3:36 AM Maia Ponsonnet <<a href="mailto:maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au">maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello, Another aspect of the question is, if a language has a word for 'pitch', how likely is a linguist to identify it in the course of language documentation/description?</div>
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In Dalabon (Australia) I have encountered instances of the word for '(crown of) head' (<i>kodj-no</i>) that I could never fully make sense of. So far my best hypothesis is that they would translate as 'pitch', but I never got a chance to get to the bottom of
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<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] word for "pitch" in languages across the world</font>
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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!)
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I'm wondering what cultures/languages have lexicalized this notion?</div>
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best,</div>
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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>
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