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Sounds like life : sound-symbolic grammar, performance, and cognition in Pastaza Quechua /

Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nuckolls, Janis B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 2.
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