A Study in Phonetic Symbolism*
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THE SYMBOLISM of language is, or may be, twofold. By far the greater portion of its recognized content and structure is symbolic in a purely referential sense; in other words, the meaningful combinations of vowels and consonants (words, significant parts of words, and word groupings) derive their functional significance from the arbitrary associations between them and their meanings established by various societies in the course of an uncontrollably long period of historical development. That these associations are essentially arbitrary or conventional may be seen at once by considering such a proportion as
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