| Lemma | phonetic variant |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1929) |
| Titolo | A Study in Phonetic Symbolism |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | referential symbolism (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | So far as the referential symbolism of language is concerned, the words 'boy' and 'man' are discrete, incomparable phonetic entities, the sound-group b-o-y having no more to do with the sound-group m-a-n, in a possible scale of evaluated phonetic variants, than any randomly selected pair of sound-groups, say 'run' and 'bad', have to do with each other. |