Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:12:21 -0800

From: "Thomas L. Clark" tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU

Subject: Re: Pseudo-Imitatives / "Conventionalized" Exclamations / &

"Semanticized" Utterances or Noises



On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Samuel Jones wrote:

3) 'Semanticized' noises"



By the way, I remember our Oklahoma boars (no pun intended!) as

beginning THEIR noises with a dark, muffled, deep-throated retroflex-r

sound rather than



"GGGGGmmmmppph. (The noise a real pig makes)"



MAYBE



/ r:::m:f:::/ ? I LOVE the description "dark muffled, deep retroflex"



It works for the phoneticists I know who use "gravelly voice".



Cheers,

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu

Thomas L. Clark

UNLV