Sound Symbolism, Onomatopoeia, and New Guinea Frog Names

Autor:	Terence E. Hays
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Ethnoscience media_common.quotation_subject Brent Berlin Onomatopoeia New guinea Art Sound symbolism Language and Linguistics Linguistics media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 4:153-174
ISSN:	1548-1395 1055-1360
DOI:	10.1525/jlin.1994.4.2.153
Popis:	Brent Berlin has recently proposed the use of r sounds as a substantive universal in the names given to frogs and toads, a tendency that he attributes to onomatopoeia. A data set from over 200 New Guinea languages is analyzed. Berlin's proposal regarding r sounds receives strong support, but an even more significant pattern is found with respect to g sounds. Onomatopoeia is a possible motivation for both of these pattern
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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