Universal #363

Legacy number: 363

 Number  362
 Original  (a)The utterance of the consonants with strong pressure of breath from the chest (as in aspirates, affricates, or in guttural consonants) corresponds to strength of purpose in the language community. (b) The tense and full utterance of consonants corresponds to laborious and active habits respectively, with easy life and indolence producing softly and imperfectly uttered consonants instead. (c) The unrestricted concurrence of consonants in consonant clusters corresponds to versatility, the restricted variety in their concurrence to tenacity. (d) The predominance of consonants (more adapted for the transmission of that representation to the sense of the hearer) corresponds to thoughtfulness, while the predominance of vowels over consonants corresponds to thoughtfulness and talkativeness.
 Standardized  (a)The utterance of the consonants with strong pressure of breath from the chest (as in aspirates, affricates, or in guttural consonants) corresponds to strength of purpose in the language community. (b) The tense and full utterance of consonants corresponds to laborious and active habits respectively, with easy life and indolence producing softly and imperfectly uttered consonants instead. (c) The unrestricted concurrence of consonants in consonant clusters corresponds to versatility, the restricted variety in their concurrence to tenacity. (d) The predominance of consonants (more adapted for the transmission of that representation to the sense of the hearer) corresponds to thoughtfulness, while the predominance of vowels over consonants corresponds to thoughtfulness and talkativeness.
 Keywords  consonant, vowel, consonant clusters, aspiration
 Domain  phonology, culture/mind
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  ?
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  culled from Byrne 1885: Plank 1996, Plank 1998

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Discussion
Notes
See syntactic correlate in #654.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See syntactic correlate in <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=654"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">