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ding-dong theory
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言語の起源に関する仮説、すなわち、全ての物が固有の振動による自然な共鳴を持ち、その響きが初期の人間の言葉に何らかの形で反映されたという考え方
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A speculative theory of the origins of spoken language, according to which all things have a vibrating natural resonance, echoed somehow in the earliest words of human beings.
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ding-dong theory
At the linguistics seminar, she defended the ding-dong theory as a poetic but plausible account of how early human words mirrored the resonant sounds of the world.
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At the linguistics seminar, she defended the ding-dong theory as a poetic but plausible account of how early human words mirrored the resonant sounds of the world.
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