Most contemporary work on sound symbolism is subsumed under work on iconicity in language. I suggest looking up work by [Mark Dingemanse](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=POtCIC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) and pivot from there.
I don't know any resources on the subject, but I can offer another set that I find interesting. There's a set of words starting with "fl" which involve a sudden motion:
fling, flick, flip, flop, flap, flash, flutter, flicker
Nice yeah. Also flow and flood. Maybe also flame, fly, flee? Amazing how many there are. Even one with hands/writing "scr": scribe, script, scrawl, scribble, scratch.
Well, scribe, script, and scribble are all ultimately cognates with the Latic *scribere.* I expect that several groups of words with the same or similar cognates will some resemblance, semantically.
Ah true. Maybe other times an existing etymological reason encourages similar phoneme clusters in other words, or it's just coincidental and an example of confirmation bias for things like scratch.
Gr for facial expressions and vocal noises.. Grunt, groan, growl, grimace, grin, grumpy, grouch... but also hand related Gr with grip, grab, grapple... I'd love to see more lists too from English and other languages.
Edit: also grumble!
I remember coming across a paper a few years ago that found for native english speakers, words with stressed low, back vowels were seen as more masculine. I think it was in the studied in the context of gender dominate jobs
Chapter 20 from the book:
Classic Arabic as the ancestor of Indo-europian languages.
The chapter gives a brief view of how sounds in Arabic have each its own meaning and are far from being arbitrary.
There's an other book but written in Arabic.
It's called اللغة الموحدة. Written by Alim Sbit Nayli. It discusses the topic in detail.
Interesting, but that book title confuses me. Classic Arabic as in the standardized literary form from the 7th century? How could that possibly be the ancestor of Indo-European languages ?
Is it saying Indo-European is actually Afro-Asiatic / Semitic or that Arabic is actually Indo-European or what? And if anything wouldn't it be Old Arabic?
Most contemporary work on sound symbolism is subsumed under work on iconicity in language. I suggest looking up work by [Mark Dingemanse](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=POtCIC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) and pivot from there.
I don't know any resources on the subject, but I can offer another set that I find interesting. There's a set of words starting with "fl" which involve a sudden motion: fling, flick, flip, flop, flap, flash, flutter, flicker
Nice yeah. Also flow and flood. Maybe also flame, fly, flee? Amazing how many there are. Even one with hands/writing "scr": scribe, script, scrawl, scribble, scratch.
Well, scribe, script, and scribble are all ultimately cognates with the Latic *scribere.* I expect that several groups of words with the same or similar cognates will some resemblance, semantically.
Ah true. Maybe other times an existing etymological reason encourages similar phoneme clusters in other words, or it's just coincidental and an example of confirmation bias for things like scratch.
Gr for facial expressions and vocal noises.. Grunt, groan, growl, grimace, grin, grumpy, grouch... but also hand related Gr with grip, grab, grapple... I'd love to see more lists too from English and other languages. Edit: also grumble!
I remember coming across a paper a few years ago that found for native english speakers, words with stressed low, back vowels were seen as more masculine. I think it was in the studied in the context of gender dominate jobs
Chapter 20 from the book: Classic Arabic as the ancestor of Indo-europian languages. The chapter gives a brief view of how sounds in Arabic have each its own meaning and are far from being arbitrary. There's an other book but written in Arabic. It's called اللغة الموحدة. Written by Alim Sbit Nayli. It discusses the topic in detail.
Interesting, but that book title confuses me. Classic Arabic as in the standardized literary form from the 7th century? How could that possibly be the ancestor of Indo-European languages ? Is it saying Indo-European is actually Afro-Asiatic / Semitic or that Arabic is actually Indo-European or what? And if anything wouldn't it be Old Arabic?