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Most languages probably have an "interpretation of the sound laughter makes" and across the languages I know it's a fricative-vowel syllable repeated several ti
by yorwba 6y ago
Most languages probably have an "interpretation of the sound laughter makes" and across the languages I know it's a fricative-vowel syllable repeated several times. That's about the level of similarity shown for 'huh?' across languages in the study.
- chownie 6y ago'Huh?' is significant because it forms a communicative purpose, it forms a request from listener to speaker to recall the previous spoken phrase. The study is showing that all languages have a sound for that purpose.