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Phonaesthemes: evidence from English and Modern Greek [PDF]

Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2003
Α problem which morphological theory has left unsolνed is the status of phonaesthetic elements, the so called phonaesthemes (Firth 1930) which can be classified on the basis of the initial consonants, νowels or final consonants of words, associated with a common component of meaning. For example, the sl- and the γl- sequence in English and Modern Greek
Mela-Athanasopoulou, Elizabeth
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Phonaesthemes: A Corpus-Based Analysis [PDF]

, 2008
The association between sound and meaning is commonly thought of as symbolic and arbitrary. While this appears to be mostly correct, there is some evidence that specific phonetic groupings can be indicative of word meaning.
Otis, Katya, Sagi, Eyal
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A study of the productivity of twelve English onset phonaesthemes [PDF]

This thesis studies twelve word-initial phonaesthemes identified in the vocabulary of English. Phonaesthemes (Firth, 1930; 1935) are phonotactic sequences that recur in multiple words with similar meanings. While several scholars have discussed these phonaesthemes (e.g.
Willett, Michael
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The English Phonaestheme and Vocabulary Recognition: An Experiment. [PDF]

Among the signs that humans produce and combine in complex manners to refer to their internal and external worlds, some seem to assume, in a given language and under certain circumstances, an iconic value that others lack, i.e. they seem to associate to their referent in a less arbitrary manner.
N. Bosisio
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Initial consonantal phonaesthemes in Czech [PDF]

, 2023
Příspěvek představuje koncept tzv. fonestému a poukazuje na jeho relevanci pro jazykovědnou teorii, pročež se snaží identifikovat iniciální konsonantické fonestémy v češtině.
Sláma, Jakub
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Phonaesthetic Phonological Iconicity in Literary Analysis Illustrated by Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” [PDF]

, 2014
The article offers a phonosemantic analysis of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” The phonosemantic investigation has been based on the corpus of nineteen relevant sound-related descriptions of the sea.
Gwóźdź, Maja
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Challenging the Morpheme: Cross-Linguistic Occurrences of Phonaesthemic Structures

East-West Cultural Passage, 2023
Abstract The article below sets out to demonstrate that a long-time underestimated concept in linguistics, the phonaestheme, may find its rightful place in morphological theory alongside the morpheme, traditionally defined as the smallest linguistic unit carrying meaning.
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Syllable and syllable onsets - Japanese and English [PDF]

, 2023
In this chapter, I will briefly review previous studies of systemic functional linguistic phonology and especially Matthiessen's (2021) work in this area.
O'Grady, Gerard
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Phono-semantically Motivated Lexical Patterns: Evidence from English and Modern Greek. [PDF]

, 2007
Generally, linguistic theory assumes that the association between sound and meaning is essentially arbitrary: a meaning can theoretically be represented by almost any set of sounds in a language.
Mela-Athanasopoulou, Elizabeth
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Relative Use of Phonaesthemes in the Constitution and Development of Genres [PDF]

, 2016
My research question is Does the presence of phonaesthemes in words play a role in the constitution and evolution of genres? A phonaestheme is a phonemic grouping that correlates well above chance with a particular semantic quality in etymologically ...
Harbeck, James Christopher
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