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Originally Posted by Ara Pacis
Maybe the universal symbol for cold is not the "cold" phoneme but the "burr" phoneme.
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Ara, IMO, that's brilliant! (Although I'm not sure why you use the term "phoneme".)
It seems to me what you've done is to focus on the physically acting portion of the perceiving-acting cycle (PAC). That was exactly what I was ignoring by focusing on sensation/sense memory and representation/cognition/memory.
The reasoning, it would seem, is that it is difficult to form a clearly defined and commonly understood phonemic-sequence expression for a perception or cognitive representation; a physical act, however, is easily measurable.
But on a more philosophical note, it is the human response to the situation. Vibrating the lips and cheeks and breathing heavily are ways to keep heat in the face.
So, it seems you are assuming..
1) There is a common human response to cold
2) It involves making a sound with the mouth
3) The sound made is common
4) The common sound is representable
It seems also that we now have 5 methods of possible phonemic construction:
1) A physical sound at the source - eg, ice cracking, "k"
2) A nonauditory sensation interpreted as sound - eg, painful cold, "ow"
3) A cognitive representation interpreted as sound - eg, knife cutting, "k"
4) A physical reaction producing speech - eg, "brr"
5) A physical reaction sound interpreted as speech - eg, rubbing hands, "shh"
There are various perceptual and cognitive mappings along the way, but these seem like the basic categories to me.