Re: Sounds like...
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 9:18 |
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Eric Christopherson's guesses on Tokana colour terms:
>has brown
>kulhe red
>kote blue
>sane green
>lohne yellow
>hemak black
>lune dark gray
>laite light/blue gray
>hiem white
Sorry, 100% wrong! :-)
Just goes to show you that sound-symbolism is in the eye
(or ear) of the beholder...
Matt.
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Matt Pearson
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UCLA Linguistics Department
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