How widespread is Sound symbolism

[Jess Tauber]

Didn't Boas also mention in passing some examples of an h' or something to
that effect? Would this have been the rarest member of the series, and
perhaps corresponding to labials(?) in semantics? It's been a long time since
I looked at those materials.  Perhaps I should start thinking of this form of
symbolism as something else than augmentative/diminutive. Can you even really
consider it shifting? Given that /x/ seems rarer (and more derivative) than
/s/ and /sh/, what about these last?

Jess Tauber
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