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Encyclopedia > Vocable

A vocable is a word used without meaning. They are used in Blackfoot music and other American Indian music and other music such as Pygmy music and the music of the Maldives.


The Blackfoot, like other Plains Indians, use consonants h, y, w, and vowels. They avoid n, c (ts) and other consonants. i and e tend slightly to be higher pitches, a, o, and u lower ones.


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Degenerate states in language (914 words)
The extension of the relation of a functionalized vocable is different from the one for its lexical ancestor.
Moreover the objects that a functionalized vocable connects are potentially infinite in type because a functionalized vocable can be attenuated to a point at which the perceptual cues that were associated to its early uses, have mostly disappeared.
So we can assume that vocables that are frequently used across many different environment have a greater potential to become functionalized as compared to vocables that are seldom in use, such as proper nouns.
Concerning the so called parts of speech (1880 words)
But of course a vocable is neither an adjective nor a noun, if all its word-occurrences of word-forms do not fit the definition normally given to adjectives and nouns in the Finnish language.
As vocables have neither meaning nor any syntactical qualities, all semantic and syntactical characteristics are useless in connection with them.
In order to be able to classify vocables from, let us say, for example, a semological point of view, one must demand that all the word-forms and occurrences of word-forms of the vocables in question shall possess certain general semological qualities (or syntactical qualities).
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