Rhinoglotophilia and the affirmation grunt: a universal tendency
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https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v8i1.26504Keywords:
Yes, rhinoglottophilia, typology, universals, laryngeal consonantsAbstract
Rhinoglottophilia and the affirmation grunt- a universal tendency.
Based on a corpus of 705 attested words far 'yes' collected from 582 languages spoken in 74 countries, I propose a basic universal template or canonical form for this lexical item having the pattern /he?e/. In the accompanying discussion I suggest a formal and functional explanation for this phenomenon by appealing to the notion of minimal articulatory gesture.
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