10.522, Sum: Ouch!

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Subject: 10.522, Sum: Ouch!

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Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:01:16 +0200
From:  Fred Cummins <fred at sedano.idsia.ch>
Subject:  Ouch!/ow!/aija!

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Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:01:16 +0200
From:  Fred Cummins <fred at sedano.idsia.ch>
Subject:  Ouch!/ow!/aija!

I received many responses to my recent query about the form of
ouch!/ow!/aija! etc used by children across cultures.  I have arranged
all responses into a web page which will be updated if I gather any
further information (feel free to mail me).  The URL is:

http://www.idsia.ch/~fred/ouch.html

There is indeed a large degree of variability in the form used.  The
following forms were noted (transcriptions are largely as in the original):

English (California, Ohio, Australia, Ireland): /aU(w)/, /aUtS/

English (Australia): [Ua] (rare), curses (common)

Icelandic: [aIJI], [aIJ], [au]

Swedish: [aj], [a:j], [a:j:]

Polish: AuWa, OiE

Chukchi (Paleosiberian, NE Russia): ['ika], ['ikaka]

Russian: ['oj], ['ojojoj]

Spanish (European, N. and S. America): [ai], /'ai.ja/

French: [ai]
also    France [uf][utS] (when squeezed)
	Qubec [ajoej] Montreal
	Qubec [adjoej] Bas St-Laurent
	Acadie [ajoej]

Portugese: [aji]

Greek: /'ai/, /aj/, /'au/, /'aits/

Persian: /'a:x/, /'a:i/, /va:i/, and /'u:h/ ('for the glottal stop)

Arabic:  /?ajj/, /?aX/

Japanese: itAi, itEeeh (class based distinction)

Korean: [aja], [ajat] (2nd syllable usually stressed)

Malay/Indonesian: _aduh_ (stress on final syllable)

Thanks to the following who responded with examples:

   Michael Moss
   Michael Dunn
   Hak-Sung Han
   Eric Pawley
   Dr. Andrew McIntyre
   M. J. Hardman
   Ahmad Reza Lotfi
   Monica Malamud Makowski
   Elisabet Eir Cortes
   Dick Hudson
   Carmen Zamanillo
   Steven Schaufele
   Nicole Cooper
   Geoffrey Sampson
   Mikael Parkvall
   David Gil
   Damon Allen Davison
   John Mackin
   R. M. Chandler-Burns
   Tony Lewis
   Seham
   Phoevos Panagiotidis
   Wendy Burnett
   Beate Damm

Apologies if I missed anyone..................

Fred

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