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Correspondences






In a brief discussion of correspondences, the painter Gyorgy Kepes quotes Franz Boas’ 1938 book General Anthropology.

    “Most of us will feel that a high pitch and exaggerated length, perhaps also the vowel i (English ee) indicate smallness, while low pitch and length and the vowels a, o, u (English oo) indicate large size...Large or small size, or intensity may be expressed by variations of sound. Thus Nez Perce, and Indian language spoken in Idaho, changes n to l to indicate smallness; Dakota has many words in which s changes to sh, or z or j, indicating greater intensity...Undoubtedly the particular kind of synesthesia between sound, sight and touch has played its role in the growth of language.”

Gyorgy Kepes Language of Vision 1944, 167

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