People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds

www.theguardian.com

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds

www.theguardian.com

koavf@lemmy.ml to

Linguistics@mander.xyz · 9 months ago

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Speakers of 28 languages linked sound and shape at least 88% of the time, in ‘strongest case of sound symbolism to date’

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

Linguistics@mander.xyz

linguistics@mander.xyz

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome to the community about the science of human Language!

Everyone is welcome here: from laypeople to professionals, Historical linguists to discourse analysts, structuralists to generativists.

Rules:

Instance rules apply.
Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. And avoid unnecessary mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
Post sources when reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
Have fun!

Related communities:

Resources:

Grammar Watch - contains descriptions of the grammars of multiple languages, from the whole world.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

1 user / day
49 users / week
86 users / month
751 users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
1.36K subscribers
84 Posts
183 Comments
Modlog