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List of contributors; 1. Introduction: Sound-symbolic processes LeanneHinton, Johanna Nichols, John Ohala; Part I. Native American Languages Northof Mexico: 2. Symbolism in Nez Perce Haruo Aoki; 3. Nootkan vocative vocalismand its implications William H. Jacobsen Jr; 4. Relative motivation indenotational and indexical sound symbolism of Wasco-Wishram Chinookan MichaelSilverstein; Part II. Native Languages of Latin America: 5. Symbolism andchange in the sound system of Huastec Terrence Kaufman; 6. Evidence forpervasive synesthetic sound symbolism in ethnozoological nomenclature BrentBerlin; 7. Noise words in Guarani Margaret Langdon; Part III. Asia: 8. i: biga: small Gerard Diffloth; 9. Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu:loading the syllable canon James A. Matisoff; 10. An experimentalinvestigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to Mandarin Chinese RandyJ. Lapolla; 11. Palatalization in Japanese sound symbolism Shoko Hamano; PartIV. Australia and Africa: 12. Yir-Yiront ideophones Barry Alpher; 13. Africanideophones G. Tucker Childs; Part V. Europe: 14. Regular sound development,phonosymbolic orchestration, disambiguation of homonyms Yakov Malkiel; 15.Modern Greek ts: beyond sound symbolism Brian D. Joseph; 16. On levels ofanalysis of sound symbolism in poetry, with an application to Russian poetryTom M. S. Priestly; 17. Finnish and Gilyak sound symbolism - the interplaybetween system and history Robert Austerlitz; Part VI. English: 18.Phonosyntactics Joan A. Sereno; 19. Aural images Richard Rhodes; 20.Inanimate imitatives in English Robert L. Oswalt; Part VII. The BiologicalBases of Sound Symbolism: 21. Some observations on the function of sound inclinical work Peter F. Ostwald; 22. The frequency code underlies thesound-symbolic use of voice pitch John J. Ohala; 23. Sound symbolism and itsrole in non-human vertebrate communication Eugene S. Morton; Index.