Not All Cows Moo

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2015
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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.
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