How widespread is Sound symbolism

Robert L. Rankin rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu
Wed Sep 15 16:28:53 UTC 1999


> > Didn't Boas also mention in passing some examples of an h' or something to that effect?
>
> I'm not familiar with the reference, but if that's a h-overdot, then it's the same as the x - just different orthographies.

All fricatives are elegible to participate.

s  sh  x
z  zh  gh [gamma]
s' sh' x'

We've just been using the VL set as examples.  I don't recall if there
are any "fully functional" glottalized sets or not, but they are
potentially there.

Bob



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