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October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Ő and Ű are quite interesting; in case of Ő the tongue is in the same stance as Ë has (phoneme between E and É) and the lips are as in case of Ó. In case of Ű the tongue is in the same stance as Í has, the lips are as in case of Ú. So, mainly stance of the tongue determines highness-deepness of the vowel. Following from the above, vowels mainly express some “scale-qualities”, e.g. proximity-distance, smallness-bigness; higher vowels express closeness, smallness, deeper vowels express distance, bigness, etc. We found it not only in a lot of opposition pairs, but in gradual scales too. Examples: Opposition paires: itt –ott, ide – oda, ily – oly, ez – az, erre – arra, ennek – annak, closeness-distance smallness-bigness lik –luk, csip – csup, dirib – darab, pip – púp, gyim – gyom, csikló – csukló tipeg – topog rebben – robban, Gradual scales: itt – ott – túl libben – lebben – lobban, libeg – lebeg – lobog Summary Sound symbolism is a quite widespread phenomenon in the Hungarian language; we feel that it is deeply rooted in the nature of its origin. As we have seen, high percentage of the roots is direct sound imitator, these, together with mood imitators and inducement words (altogether the direct sound symbolical words), add up to at least one fourth - one third of the roots. There are a lot of indirect sound-symbolical roots too (“movement imitators” and other feature imitators). As we have seen, at list one fifth - one fourth are considered now in this group, but this labeling deeply depends upon the person, who makes the categorization, how deeply he feels the features of phonemes. According to our expectation this percentage will be much higher, as more and more features of the phonemes, roots will be discovered. Sound symbolism gives the base to the interpretation and explanation of the higher level language units, especially to roots, creators, etc. These discoveries will have high impact on language education, too. (To be continued) _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 108
October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ References: Czuczor Gergely – Fogarasi János: A magyar nyelv szótára, (The Dictionary of Hungarian Language), 1862. Hinton, Nichols, Ohala (eds): Sound Symbolism, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Lyons, John: Semantics. Cambridge University Press, 1977–1996. McCune, Keith: The internal structure of Indonesian roots, Doctoral thesis at University of Michigan in 1983, published in 1985. Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya (Jakarta) Virág Kálmán: Rend a szóhalmazban. (Order in the Set of Words) http://nyelvgenetika.uw.hu/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 109
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