Not All Cows Moo
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2015
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of onomatopoeic
words that symbolize animal cries in four different languages: Brazilian Portuguese,
Spanish, French, and Japanese. Each language is first analyzed individually to
discern whether or not its onomatopoeic words are marked. Marked words are
distinct from the regular forms of the language either due to their individual
phonemes or the structures in which they are combined. To determine this, the
phonemic inventories of the regular and onomatopoeic forms present in each
language are compared to one another. The animal cry data is then reviewed in the
context of the phonotactic rules of the appropriate language. The scope is then
expanded outwards to compare the representations of the same animal cries as they
appear in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Japanese.