<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Onomatopoeia: Cuckoo-Language and Tick-Tocking+◊"^^ . "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, 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, 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? -- The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception), but have only fleetingly touched upon onomatopoeia. In this paper I will recapitulate from that book the issue of acoustic coding, and then will toy around with two spe ci fic cases: why does the cuckoo say \"kuku\" in some languages, and why the clock prefers to say \"tick-tock\" rather than, say, tip-top. Only fleetingly I will touch upon the question why the speech sounds [s] and [S] (S represents the initial consonant of sh oe; s the initial consonant of sue) serve generally as onomatopoeia for noise. By way of doing all this, I will discuss a higher-order issue as well: How are effects translated from reality to some semiotic system, or from one semiotic system to ano ther.U.cns"^^ . "2001" . . . "Iconicity in language"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Reuven"^^ . "Tsur"^^ . "Reuven Tsur"^^ . . "Margaret"^^ . "Magnus"^^ . "Margaret Magnus"^^ . . . . . . "Onomatopoeia: Cuckoo-Language and Tick-Tocking+◊ (HTML)"^^ . . . "Cuckoo_onomatopoeia_2.html"^^ . . . "ba_da_ga_continuous.GIF"^^ . . . "s-sz_tagged.GIF"^^ . . . "di-du.GIF"^^ . . . "iau_kuku_intonation.GIF"^^ . . . "iau_kuku.GIF"^^ . . . "i-a-u.mp3"^^ . . . "ba_da_ga_colour.gif"^^ . . . "Glide_and_whistles.mp3"^^ . . . "letsaftsef.GIF"^^ . . . "kuku.mp3"^^ . . . "ba_da_ga.mp3"^^ . . . "Onomatopoeia: Cuckoo-Language and Tick-Tocking+◊ (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3232 \n\nOnomatopoeia: Cuckoo-Language and Tick-Tocking+◊\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Language" . . . "Semantics" . . . "Psycholinguistics" . . . "Perceptual Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Speech" . . . "Phonology" . .