Nootkan vocative vocalism and its implications

Jacobsen, William H.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511751806.003

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“…One particular area that testifies to non-arbitrariness is sound symbolism-in other words, the linkage of certain vowels, consonants, and suprasegmentals with visual, tactile, perceptual (such as size or shape) or other sensory properties (Hinton et al, 1994). Over the decades, a substantial amount of research has emerged on a wide variety of languages, especially English (for an overview, see Benczes, 2019), but also including American Indian languages (Aoki, 1994;Jacobsen, 1994;Nichols, 1971;Silverstein, 1994), African languages (Childs, 1994), Australian languages (Alpher, 1994;Haynie et al, 2014), Chinese (Karlgren, 1962;Lapolla, 1994), Japanese (Hamano, 1994), Korean (Kim, 1977), Dutch (Klamer, 2002), Danish (Jespersen, 1918), French (Peterfalvi, 1970), German (Hilmer, 1914), Modern Greek (Joseph, 1994), Finnish (Austerlitz, 1994) and American Sign Language (Thompson et al, 2020), to name but a few (and see Hinton et al, 1994;Taylor & Taylor, 1965, for further examples). This prompted 1…”

Section: Sound Symbolism Research Across Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Palatal is for happiness, plosive is for sadness: evidence for stochastic relationships between phoneme classes and sentiment polarity in Hungarian

Benczes

Kovàcs

2022

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The past couple of decades have seen a substantial increase in linguistic research that highlights the non-arbitrariness of language, as manifested in motivated sound–meaning correspondences. Yet one of the challenges of such studies is that there is a relative paucity of data-driven analyses, especially in the case of languages other than English, such as Hungarian, even though the proportion of at least partially motivated words in Hungarian vocabulary is substantial. We address this gap by investigating the relationship between Hungarian phoneme classes and positive/negative sentiment based on 3,023 word forms retrieved from the Hungarian Sentiment Lexicon. Our results indicate that positive polarity word forms tend to contain more vowels, front vowels, continuants, fricatives, palatals, and sibilants. On the other hand, negative sentiment polarity words tend to have more rounded vowels, plosives, and dorsal consonants. While our analysis provides strong evidence for a set of non-arbitrary form–meaning relationships, effect sizes also reveal that such associations tend to be fairly weak tendencies, and therefore sentiment polarity cannot be derived from the relative frequencies of phoneme classes in a deterministic fashion.

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Section: Sound Symbolism Research Across Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Palatal is for happiness, plosive is for sadness: evidence for stochastic relationships between phoneme classes and sentiment polarity in Hungarian

Benczes

Kovàcs

2022

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“…JACOBSEN (1994) nimmt für Lautsprachen eine allgemeine Tendenz an, Anrufe nominaler und verbaler Form zu plutieren, wenn sie über große Distanz tragen müssen oder besondere Dringlichkeit ausdrücken sollen. So verfügt die vom Englischen abstammende Kreolsprache Saa 323 maka (Surinam) zwar über einen Vokativmarker -o (womi-o 'Mann'); aber im Fernruf erscheint dieser zu oo gelängt, und kann auch zu ee gewissermaßen 'ablauten'; mit beiden werden allerdings nicht nur Nomina markiert (z.B.…”

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