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wiktionary|cacophonywiktionary|euphonyredirect|Cacophonyredirect|Euphony Phonaesthetics (from the lang-el|f???, phone , "voice-sound"; and Polytonic|a?s??t???, aisthetike , "aesthetics") is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty ( euphony ) or unpleasantness ( cacophony ) of the phonetics|sound of certain words and sentences. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose . Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are rhyme , assonance and alliteration . Closely related to euphony and cacophony is the concept of consonance and dissonance .
The phrase cellar door has some notoriety as the reputedly most euphonic sound combination of the English language (specifically, when spoken with a British accent , IPA-en|s?l?'d??|).
From this meaning should be distinguished the closely related but different concept of phonaesthesia , which does not refer directly to aesthetic attributes of sound, but to phonetic elements that are inherently associated with a semantic meaning. The term was introduced by J. R. Firth in 1930 "The phonæsthetic habits ... are of general importance in speech." Firth defined a phonaestheme as "a phoneme or cluster of phonemes shared by a group of words which also have in common some element of meaning or function, though the words may be etymologically unrelated."
Sub-phonematic euphony
Confusing |section |date = October 2011In most languages, phonetic combinations which are difficult to pronounce will be adapted to allow more flowing speech, for reasons of ease of pronunciation rather than aesthetics . These adaptations will be allophone|sub-phonematic at first, but over several generations will lead to phoneme|phonematically relevant sound change s. Most of the euphony or mellifluous design of a formal language is pure coincidence , yet phonaesthetics relations with Meaning (linguistics)|meaning can arise to frequent use and may even become cliché .
See also
sandhi ("euphonic" rules in Sanskrit grammar)
vowel harmony
assimilation (linguistics)
dissimilation
elision
epenthesis
affection (linguistics)
i-mutation
English and Welsh
inherently funny word
phonosemantics
onomatopoeia
Japanese sound symbolism
glossolalia
symphony
harmony
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
References
Ross Smith, Inside Language - Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien , Walking Tree Publishers (2007), ISBN 978-3-905703-06-1.
