How widespread is Sound symbolism
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Sep 15 16:15:02 UTC 1999
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Robert L. Rankin wrote:
> 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.
I believe there's a case in Omaha-Ponca with a term meaning 'hollow,
depression' that involves the glottalized set. It's interesting because,
of course, *x? becomes just ? in Omaha-Ponca.
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