?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Onomatopoeia%3A+Cuckoo-Language+and+Tick-Tocking%2B%E2%97%8A&rft.creator=Tsur%2C+Reuven&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Speech&rft.subject=Phonology&rft.description=This+paper+is+a+brief+phonetic+investigation+of+the+nature+of+onomatopoeia.+Onomatopoeia+is+the+imitation+of+natural+noises+by+speech+sounds.+To+understand+this+phenomenon%2C+we+must+realize+that+there+is+a+problem+here+which+is+by+no+means+trivial.+There+i+s+an+infinite+number+of+noises+in+nature%2C+but+only+twenty-something+letters+in+an+alphabet+that+convey+in+any+language+a+closed+system+of+about+fifty+(up+to+a+maximum+of+100)+speech+sounds.+I+have+devoted+a+book+length+study+to+the+expressiveness+of+lang+u+age+(What+Makes+Sound+Patterns+Expressive%3F+--+The+Poetic+Mode+of+Speech+Perception)%2C+but+have+only+fleetingly+touched+upon+onomatopoeia.+In+this+paper+I+will+recapitulate+from+that+book+the+issue+of+acoustic+coding%2C+and+then+will+toy+around+with+two+spe+ci+fic+cases%3A+why+does+the+cuckoo+say+%22kuku%22+in+some+languages%2C+and+why+the+clock+prefers+to+say+%22tick-tock%22+rather+than%2C+say%2C+tip-top.+Only+fleetingly+I+will+touch+upon+the+question+why+the+speech+sounds+%5Bs%5D+and+%5BS%5D+(S+represents+the+initial+consonant+of+sh+oe%3B+s+the+initial+consonant+of+sue)+serve+generally+as+onomatopoeia+for+noise.+By+way+of+doing+all+this%2C+I+will+discuss+a+higher-order+issue+as+well%3A+How+are+effects+translated+from+reality+to+some+semiotic+system%2C+or+from+one+semiotic+system+to+ano+ther.U.cns&rft.contributor=Magnus%2C+Margaret&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3232%2F1%2FCuckoo_onomatopoeia_2.html&rft.identifier=++Tsur%2C+Reuven++(2001)+Onomatopoeia%3A+Cuckoo-Language+and+Tick-Tocking%2B%E2%97%8A.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3232%2F