Re: Interjections
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2005, 12:26 |
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:49:13 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>Plus, of course, interjections follow the basic phonology of their
>languages - ISTR that the French equivalent of the stereotypical
>"oof" (e.g. getting punched in the stomach) has either a [2] or a [9] in
>it.
Interjections may often follow the basic phonology of their languages, but
there are many samples of conventional interjections that go beyond it.
English, for instance, may have /?/ in several interjections, even though
this sound is alien to the English phonology (e.g. in the negation
interjection ['?@?@], or even ['?m)m_^?m)m_^], the same but with the mouth
shut, which has much more unusual sounds). German, e.g. has /UI/ in
interjections (e.g. [pfUI]), which is otherwise unknown in the German
phonology. Italian has /2/ as an interjection, a sound which is alien to
most dialects of that language (and to the standard, of course). Palestinian
Arabic has an *ingressive* [R\] interjection, a sound which isn't phonemic
in any language at all.
gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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