A cross-linguistic corpus of forms meaning yes
Based on a carefully-compiled database of 604 attested forms for 'yes' taken from 512 languages spoken in over 70 countries, I show that this word exhibits a cross-linguistic tendency to contain laryngeal phonemes. As part of the statistical analysis I examine cognate items within specific...
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| Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.306 |