Sound Symbolism, Onomatopoeia, and New Guinea Frog Names

Autor: Terence E. Hays
Rok vydání: 1994
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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