On 26 =C6=C5=D7, 11:55, Rick Harrison <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> There is a youngish Yahoo group about sound symbolism, a.k.a.
> phonosemantics at
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/soundsymbol/
>
> There's an enormous bibliography on this topic at
>
> http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~twkwan/Humboldt/magmus-bib.html
>
> I always had a feeling that /i/ (as in "ski") was most suitable for
> expressing small, light, airy things, and /o/ and /u/ were most
> suitable for big, heavy, deep things. So if I were inventing affixes,
> for example, I would make sure my diminutive contained /i/ and my
> augmentative contained /u/. Do you feel the same way about /i/ and /u/?
I feel the same about /i/:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldlangs/message/248
But not quite so about /u/ - perhaps because it's more close, I like /
o/ or /a/ for augmentatives better
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