Investigation of Phonetic Motivation of English Words with First Consonant Letter R
According to articulation imitation theory and characteristics of the retroflex fricative/r/,4 kinds and 20 semantically related English word clusters can be extended by association,including nearly all the frequently used English words and word roots beginning with"r".These relations between the meaning and sound of the first consonant may suggest phonetic motivation of the original English words.
retroflex fricativesemantic word clustersarticulation imitation theoryphonetic motivation
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