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9780195089851
Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words - words that bear resemblance to phenomena they attempt to describe - in an Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua, a major South American language. She explores how the speakers describe everyday experience and how sound-symbolism is integral to their way of thinking and speaking.Nuckolls, Janis B. is the author of 'Sounds Like Life Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua' with ISBN 9780195089851 and ISBN 0195089855.
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