by Stephen Houston
A well-known feature of language is onomatopoeia, the practice of creating and using words to imitate a sound. “Wham!” and “bang!” appear in cartoons, and various languages refer to a dog’s bark as anything from vov vov (Swedish) to bow wow (English). In Swedish, the language of my childhood, a dog was for [...]
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The xa syllable as an example of onomatopoeia?
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