Summary Details
| Query: |
Ouch!/ow!/aija!
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| Author: | Fred Cummins | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonology
Lexicography |
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| Summary: |
I received many responses to my recent query about the form of ouch!/ow!/aija! etc used by children across cultures. I have arranged all responses into a web page which will be updated if I gather any further information (feel free to mail me). The URL is: http://www.idsia.ch/~fred/ouch.html There is indeed a large degree of variability in the form used. The following forms were noted (transcriptions are largely as in the original): English (California, Ohio, Australia, Ireland): /aU(w)/, /aUtS/ English (Australia): [Ua] (rare), curses (common) Icelandic: [aIJI], [aIJ], [au] Swedish: [aj], [a:j], [a:j:] Polish: AuWa, OiE Chukchi (Paleosiberian, NE Russia): ['ika], ['ikaka] Russian: ['oj], ['ojojoj] Spanish (European, N. and S. America): [ai], /'ai.ja/ French: [ai] also France [uf][utS] (when squeezed) Qubec [ajoej] Montreal Qubec [adjoej] Bas St-Laurent Acadie [ajoej] Portugese: [aji] Greek: /'ai/, /aj/, /'au/, /'aits/ Persian: /'a:x/, /'a:i/, /va:i/, and /'u:h/ ('for the glottal stop) Arabic: /?ajj/, /?aX/ Japanese: itAi, itEeeh (class based distinction) Korean: [aja], [ajat] (2nd syllable usually stressed) Malay/Indonesian: _aduh_ (stress on final syllable) Thanks to the following who responded with examples: Michael Moss Michael Dunn Hak-Sung Han Eric Pawley Dr. Andrew McIntyre M. J. Hardman Ahmad Reza Lotfi Monica Malamud Makowski Elisabet Eir Cortes Dick Hudson Carmen Zamanillo Steven Schaufele Nicole Cooper Geoffrey Sampson Mikael Parkvall David Gil Damon Allen Davison John Mackin R. M. Chandler-Burns Tony Lewis Seham Phoevos Panagiotidis Wendy Burnett Beate Damm Apologies if I missed anyone.................. Fred '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Fred Cummins, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland Web: http://www.idsia.ch/~fred email: fred at idsia.ch (replace ' at ' with '@') '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' |
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| LL Issue: | 10.522 | |
| Date Posted: | 08-Apr-1999 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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