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