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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Buzz! Thwack! How sounds become words Catherine Matacic <http://www.sciencemag.org/author/catherine-matacic> <http://www.sciencemag.org/author/catherine-matacic>Mar> 31.3.16 Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it describes. Linguists think that just a small proportion of words are made this way in every language. But scientists donąt actually know how that process happens. In the first study to explore how sounds become words in real time, researchers used a łtelephone˛ style game: they asked 16 volunteers to imitate sounds e.g. sloshing water, ripping paper. They then played those imitations for a new group of volunteers, who replicated them for new volunteers, and so on. Over time, something strange happened: the imitations started to sound like words. <http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/evolang/fidelity.html#/> They developed stable initial sounds & vowels, becoming so regular that new volunteers were able to repeat them without any problems: - an imitation of ripping paper morphed from a drawn-out friction-full noise into the 2-syllable "chee-ah", - an imitation of sloshing water transformed itself into the guttural utterance "glong-glong". When a separate group was asked to trace the new "words" back to their original sounds, they were able to guess the correct answers well above chance. This suggests - people can turn meaningful sounds into meaningful words, - these kinds of sound-derived words may be much more widespread in human language than previously thought. Brain & Behavior <http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/taxonomy/term/352> doi 10.1126/science.aaf4069 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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