Curse words around the world have something in common (we swear)
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Study finds some underlying rules may link the world’s languages, no matter how different they are “Holy motherforking…
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Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns
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“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants…
Hindi to English to Hungarian—why swear words sound obscene
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The idea that the sounds in such words contribute to their offensiveness violates a linguistic principle—that the relationship…
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News story from Hartford Courant on Wednesday 07 December 2022
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Swear Words Around The World Use The Same Sounds To Vent Emotion
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“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants…
Most Swear Words Have a Common Feature, Even Across Different Languages
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Have you ever heard a word in a foreign language and thought it sounded profane or rude for some inexplicable reason? Well, a…
Most Swear Words Have a Common Feature, Even Across Different
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Have you ever heard a word in a foreign language and thought it sounded profane or rude for some inexplicable reason? Well, a…
Most Swear Words Have a Common Feature, Even Across Different Languages
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Have you ever heard a word in a foreign language and thought it sounded profane or rude for some inexplicable reason? Well, a…
Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear)
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“Holy motherforking shirtballs!” a character exclaimed on “The Good Place,” a television show that took place in a version of…
MIL-OSI Global: Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to
Foreign Affairs New Zealand,
– By Ryan McKay, Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London “Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak.
Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to find out why they sound the way they do
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“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants…
Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to find out why obscenities sound the way they do
The Conversation,
“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants…
Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features - daytonews
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На самом деле человечество говорит на одном языке
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Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
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We’ve all experienced how certain sounds can grate on our nerves, such as the noise made by dragging your fingernails across a…
Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
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During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
BEYOND LOCAL: People love or hate the sound of certain words and here's why
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This article by Morten H. Christiansen, Cornell University and Nick Chater, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick…
Why do we love (and hate) the sound of certain words?
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During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
Why do we love (and hate) the sound of certain words?
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During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
News story from The Independent on Sunday 13 March 2022
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Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
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During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
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MIL-OSI Global: Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
Foreign Affairs New Zealand,
– By Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University During the pandemic, many…
Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
Global Advisors,
funbutterfly/Shutterstock During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
The Conversation,
During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
Yahoo! News,
During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
Yahoo! News,
During the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”.
What the sound of your name says about you
BBC News,
What the sound of your name says about you (Image credit: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images) The way your name or a word rolls off…
С языка сняли. Почему из всех животных разговаривают только люди
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МОСКВА, 23 фев — РИА Новости, Альфия Еникеева. В мире насчитывают больше семи тысяч языков.
Why Richard Dawkins Thinks ‘Allahu Akbar’ Sounds ‘Aggressive’
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Richard Dawkins is at it again. The famous atheist and bestselling author of The God Delusion tweeted on Monday a picture of…
Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests
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Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests
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Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests
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A new study finds people all over the world are able to differentiate between lullabies and dance songs from cultures they're…
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Des musiques venues du fond des âges
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Ecouter l'émission 54'30 Des musiques venues du fond des âges Articles scientifiques : Blasi DE, Wichmann S, Hammarström H, et…
Lehet, hogy ltezett a bbeli zrzavar - Rejtlyes kapcsolat a vilg nyelvei kztt
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A jelenleg beszlt nyelvek ktharmadnak elemzse sorn kiderlt, hogy bizonyos trgyakra s fogalmakra hasonl hangokat hasznlunk a…
Two-thirds of all languages use similar sounds in common words
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What do English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Danish have in common? (Photo: Shutterstock) Point to a picture of the Earth and say…
En näsa är en näsa oavsett språk
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Kan finnas koppling mellan hur ord låter och vad det betyder (1:49 min) 1 av 2 (Näs)tan alla världens näs-ord Foto: T.v.
Humans may speak a universal language
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Analysis find patterns for the sound of common words in languages from around the world Humans across the globe may be actually…
A nose by any other name
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There are associations between the sounds in words and the ideas they represent in various languages If you visited Iceland and…
Wieso heisst ein Tisch eigentlich Tisch?
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Am «Europäischen Tag der Sprachen» fragen wir: Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen Lauten, die wir verwenden und dem, was wir…
Tutkijat uskovat löytäneensä yhteisiä piirteitä kaikista maailman kielistä – "Nenässä" ja "kielessä" yhdistäviä äänteitä
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Maailmassa on yli 6 000 kieltä, joista monet ovat sukua toisilleen. Niillä saattaa olla sama historiallinen kantakieli tai ne…
News story from Atlantico.fr on Tuesday 20 September 2016
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Wörter entstanden nicht zufällig
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Nachrichten Linguistik 19.09.2016 - Warum heißt die Nase so und nicht anders? Bisher hielten Linguisten das für Zufall.
¿Hablamos todos la misma lengua? La ciencia sugiere que sí
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Todo sobre este tema Un equipo de físicos, lingüistas e informáticos de Argentina, Estados Unidos, Alemania, Suiza y Países…
Why every baby around the world’s first word starts with the letter M
Quartz,
Why is it that babies the world over, each exposed to thousands of disparate languages from birth, reward their mothers with…
Why every baby around the world’s first word starts with the letter M
Global Advisors,
Why is it that babies the world over, each exposed to thousands of disparate languages from birth, reward their mothers with…
News story from The Guardian on Friday 16 September 2016
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Study claims people use same sounds for common objects and ideas, irrespective of language
Daily News & Analysis (dna),
As a part of the study, an analysis of nearly two-thirds of the world's languages shows that humans tend to use the same sounds…
"R" Is For Red: Common Words Share Similar Sounds in Many Languages
Scientific America - Spain,
In English, the word for the sniffing appendage on our face is nose. Japanese also happens to use the consonant n in this word (h…
Study finds deep links across languages
Mother Nature Network,
After analyzing nearly 2/3 of all human languages, scientists say people tend to use the same sounds for common objects and…
People use similar sounds to describe objects, regardless of language
Science Recorder,
A recent study shows that, regardless of language, people use similar sounds to describe the same objects.
Human sounds and languages are linked
Millenium Post,
15 September 2016, New Delhi, IANS Scientists have in an analysis of nearly two-thirds of the world’s languages found that…
Scientists discover a 'universal human language' - Redorbit
redOrbit,
Science September 14, 2016 Many of the world's 6,000-plus languages use similar sounds for similar concepts, groundbreaking…
Scientists discover a 'universal human language' - Redorbit
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Science September 14, 2016 Many of the world's 6,000-plus languages use similar sounds for similar concepts, groundbreaking…
Parole simili in lingue diverse: lo studio sui suoni nel vocabolario di base
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Una nuova ricerca potrebbe rappresentare una pietra miliare nell'ambito degli studi di linguistica generale: si tratta del…
Parole con lo stesso significato hanno suoni simili in lingue diverse
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(foto: ) Seimila lingue, diverse parole. Ma stessi suoni e significati. In fondo in fondo, gli esseri umani parlano una specie…
People Use Same Sounds For Common Objects, Ideas No Matter The Language
Tech Times,
After analyzing almost two-thirds of all the languages in the world, researchers are saying that people have a tendency to use…
Our Languages May Have More in Common Than We Thought | Fox News
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About 100 years ago, one of the founders of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure, wrote that the relationship between the…
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