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	JAPANESE AND THE MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Japanese is a relatively ordinary language in terms of its phonology, lexicon and syntax.
		The stark contrast between the judgment that Japanese is an inadequate language and the overwhelming importance of the language as a constituent of the Japanese psyche is obvious.
		Sound symbolism is the usual term for the apparent appropriateness of the sound-structures of many individual words for their meanings - better described as 'natural expressiveness'.
	www.percepp.demon.co.uk /japanese.htm (10485 words)

	Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sound symbolic words occur more often in Japanese than in English — they are found in formal as well as vernacular language.
		In Japanese grammar, sound symbolic words function as adverbs, often taking the particle と (to) because they are seen as quotations.
		For example, the nasal sound [n] gives a more personal and speaker-oriented impression than the velars [k] and [ɡ]; this contrast can be easily noticed in pairs of synonyms such as ので node and から kara which both mean because, but with the first being perceived as more subjective.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism (544 words)

	Sound symbolism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In particular, sound symbolism is the idea that phonemes (written between slashes like this /b/) carry meaning in and of themselves.
		Kūkai, the founder of Shingon wrote his Sound, word, reality in the 9th century which relates all sounds to the voice of the Dharmakaya Buddha.
		^ Junko Baba, "Pragmatic Function of Japanese Mimesis in Emotive Discourse" The author shows that psychomimes "create more vivid and intensified expressions to fuel the liveliness of the personal conversation" and "are effectively used to dramatize the emotive state of the protagonist".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sound_symbolism (1919 words)

	Shoko Hamano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Making Sense of Japanese Grammar: A Clear Guide Through Common Problems with Zeljko Cipris.
		The Sound Symbolic System of Japanese: Studies in Japanese Linguistics, Vol.
		"Palatalization in Japanese Sound Symbolism" in Sound Symbolism, ed.
	home.gwu.edu /~hamano (92 words)

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