While you might consider these words beautiful without knowing what they mean, linguist David Crystal says it's impossible to separate sounds entirely from their meaning. Words with positive connotations, like birds and flowers, naturally make us happy, while darker words, like "peril," instill less positive feelings.
你可能会认为这些单词优美动听,却不知道这些单词是什么意思,语言学家大卫-克里斯特尔说,单词发音不可能完全与单词含义划分开。隐含着正面含义的单词,像鸟类和鲜花,自然让我们感到快乐;而比较晦暗的单词,像“peril(危险),给人一种不那么积极正面的感受。
But even Crystal can't deny some patterns appear based just on sound; humans simply find some sounds more pleasing than others. By analyzing the consonant and vowel sounds that appear in language the most and least frequently, Crystal created certain criteria that compose the most beautiful words.
但是就算是语言学家克里斯特尔也无法否认,有一些模式只是跟声音有关;人们就是会觉得有些声音比其他的更好听。通过分析在语言中出现频率最多和最少的辅音和元音,克里斯特尔对于最美丽的单词组成制定了一些标准:
For example, the word "tremulous" fits every category. The word contains more than three syllables, with the stress on the first. It uses "m" and "l" — letters we seem to enjoy pronouncing. It uses other consonants that appear in English with high frequency but eliminates those with low frequency. It also uses only short vowels, articulated in a mid or low position, in the front of the mouth.
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