| Lemma | natural sound |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | conventional (inglese) interjection (inglese) phonetic form (inglese) sound-imitative word (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] interjections are merely conventional fixations of the natural sounds. Such words as 'whippoorwill,' 'to mew,' 'to caw' are in no sense natural sounds that man has instinctively or automatically reproduced. [...] a number of words which we do not now feel to have a sound-imitative value can be shown to have once had a phonetic form that strongly suggests their origin as imitations of natural sounds. However much we may be disposed [...] to assign a fundamental importance in the languages of primitive peoples to the imitation of natural sounds, [...] these languages show no particular preference for imitative words. |