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Old 18-Jan-2007, 10:56
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Default Re: Sounds made by animals

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Originally Posted by BobK View Post
suppose with human noises there's more likely to be agreement between languages.
I dunno- we say 'ow/ouch', many Europeans say 'ai' and Japanese would be more likely to say 'ita/itaii', so the sound must come from conditioning, not nature.
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