Example sentences for: winkler

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  • Hans Winkler, the German Semitist, noted in 1935 that glossolalia, incantations, and children's chants all display certain common tendencies, namely, 1) the repetition of a given motif ( feemalator, jasperator; touchar souchar; astramuphar, astramuchur ), and 2), the economical use of the vocal apparatus.

  • Winkler discovered that the first element of binomials, whether nonsense or not, often begins with a laryngeal or velar phoneme which is formed in the back of the mouth (i.e.

  • 1; USEPA 1979b), or reagents for modified Winkler analysis.

  • Taking the above examples, hunkydory, higgledy-pig-gledy, hanky-panky, hocus pocus, heebie-jeebies, hodgepodge, hokey-pokey, inky-dinky, itsy-bitsy, Holterdipolter, Hülle und Fülle , as can be noted, the second element tends to be a repetition of the first, beginning, however, with a labial ( p, b, f, m, v, w ). Winkler called this the “ aleph-beth rule” and demonstrated its practically universal validity, citing evidence from both medieval and modern gaming rhymes in European and Semitic languages alike.

  • New York City Police Museum interview of Kenneth Winkler, Apr.


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