South Siberian Sound Symbolism
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South Siberian Turkic languages are rich in sound symbolic subsystems, both in their lexica and in the productive morphophonology, but these systems remain to be adequately documented. This paper presents new field data on sound symbolism in two South Siberian Turkic languages: Tofa(lar) and Tuvan (including the unwritten Tsengel and Hovd dialects spoken in Mongolia). Sound symbolic word formation in these languages may be unique within the Turkic family for its productivity, its use of combinatorial possibilities, and its large paradigms of related words. Possible links between sound symbolic elements in Siberian Turkic and the practice of SOUND MIMESIS in nomadic life are discussed briefly. The data are situated within a comparative Altaic perspective and within a general model of sound symbolism (Hinton, et al. 1994).
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