[Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?

Sat Mar 12 02:52:16 UTC 2022

In Chinese the unmarked form for ‘cough’ is ké-sòu (咳嗽), both parts of which are seen as onomatopoetic.

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> On 11 Mar 2022, at 10:07 PM, JOO, Ian [Student] <ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk> wrote:
> 
> The prosaic (non-ideophonic) words for ‘cough’ indeed have iconic association to /k/ and /o/. In Johansson et al. (2020), they find that /k/ and /o/ occur frequently in hundreds of words for ‘cough’ in genealogically unrelated languages:
> COUGH, LUNG, SNORE and THROAT were also associated with [+round] and
> [back], but instead of /u/, the most commonly occurring cardinal sound was /o/
> in all cases. In addition, COUGH was also associated with [–voice] which was
> represented by the cardinal sound /k/. This seems to suggest that the common
> phonetic denominator in the macro-concept PHARYNGEAL involves the back of
> oral cavity and possibly also a somewhat more open mouth than the vowels of
> AIRFLOW.
> 
> Johansson, N. E., Anikin, A., Carling, G., & Holmer, A. (2020). The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features. Linguistic Typology, 24(2), 253-310.
> 
> Regards,
> Ian
> On 11 Mar 2022, 2:59 PM +0100, Giurgea Ion <giurgeaion at yahoo.com <mailto:giurgeaion at yahoo.com>>, wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> The Indo-European reconstructed root has a similar ideophonic basis - here is the entry in H. Rix (ed.,2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben:
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, March 11, 2022, 03:52:52 PM GMT+2, JOO, Ian [Student] <ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk <mailto:ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Rafaelle,
>> 
>> here are the translations of Korean 콜록콜록 khollok-khollok that I have retrieved from the Naver Dictionaries (dict.naver.com <http://dict.naver.com/>).
>> 
>> Japanese ごほんごほん, こんこん. gohon-gohon, kon-kon
>> Mandarin 喀喀 ，吭吭 ，咳咳 kākā, kēngkēng, kéké
>> Vietnamese  sù sụ, khù khụ
>> Mongolian пөг пөг pög-pög
>> Indonesian  krok krok
>> Thai โขลก ๆ, ค๊อก ๆ, แค๊ก ๆ khlôok khlôok, khóok khóok, khéek khéek
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Also, if you are interested in ideophones and iconicity, please join our Facebook group on Iconicity:
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>> We have a monthly Zoom seminar on Iconicity. You are welcome to share your work there.
>> 
>> From Uppsala,
>> Ian
>> On 11 Mar 2022, 2:22 PM +0100, Csilla Kász, M.A. <ckasz at isfas.uni-kiel.de <mailto:ckasz at isfas.uni-kiel.de>>, wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> The Hungarian counterpart of a fake cough is quite similar to the Finnish, but is usually said twice:
>>> 
>>> Köhöm-köhöm
>>> 
>>> the pronunciation is [køhøm]
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Csilla
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Am 2022-03-11 14:06, schrieb Jussi Ylikoski:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>  
>>>> [mˈm̥m], this discussion sounds interesting! For pronunciation and translations for ahem, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem> with the interlanguage links. I just added kröhöm <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%B6h%C3%B6m> into the Finnish entry at https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem <https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem>.
>>>>  
>>>> Best,
>>>>  
>>>> Jussi
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> Frá: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>> fyrir hönd David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de <mailto:gil at shh.mpg.de>>
>>>> Sent: föstudagur, 11. mars 2022 14:47
>>>> Til: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>>
>>>> Efni: Re: [Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?
>>>>  
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> Not exactly ideophones or coughing, but English has "harrumph" and "ahem" to denote a sort of fake cough intentionally produced to express disapproval and/or draw attention.  (The two actually seem to differ in their status: whereas the former is kind of a regular verb, I don't think I've ever heard "ahem" pronounced — it seems to exist only in written form.)
>>>> 
>>>> Do other languages have similar forms?  
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Romance languages and other which I am familiar with do not seem to have a standard ideophone for it and even less a stable an accepted written version of it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Raffaele
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> Frá: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>> fyrir hönd David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de <mailto:gil at shh.mpg.de>>
>>>> Sent: föstudagur, 11. mars 2022 14:47
>>>> Til: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>>
>>>> Efni: Re: [Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?
>>>>  
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> Not exactly ideophones or coughing, but English has "harrumph" and "ahem" to denote a sort of fake cough intentionally produced to express disapproval and/or draw attention.  (The two actually seem to differ in their status: whereas the former is kind of a regular verb, I don't think I've ever heard "ahem" pronounced — it seems to exist only in written form.)
>>>> 
>>>> Do other languages have similar forms?  
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Romance languages and other which I am familiar with do not seem to have a standard ideophone for it and even less a stable an accepted written version of it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Raffaele
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --   
>>>>> ===============
>>>>> Emeritus Professor, Università Roma Tre
>>>>> Hon C Lund University
>>>>> Membre de l'Académie Royale de Belgique
>>>>> Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France
>>>>> Accademico della Crusca
>>>>> ===============
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>>>> 
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>>>> Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
>>>> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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