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A study of the productivity of twelve English onset phonaesthemes [PDF]

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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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Initial consonantal phonaesthemes in Czech

open access: yes, 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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Phonaesthemes: A Corpus-Based Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Phonaesthetic Phonological Iconicity in Literary Analysis Illustrated by Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Phono-semantically Motivated Lexical Patterns: Evidence from English and Modern Greek. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yes, 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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Syllable and syllable onsets - Japanese and English

open access: yes, 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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Relative frequency and semantic relations as organizing principles for the psychological reality of phonaesthemes

open access: yes, 2012
The perception of Swedish phonaesthemes and their psychological reality is studied in priming and lexical decision experiments. Abelin (1999) described phonaesthemes such as: bl- ‘light, vision’ in words like ‘blänka, blixtra’ and fl- ’movement’ in words
Abelin, Åsa,
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A Hybrid Approach to Faceted Classification Based on Analysis of Descriptor Suffixes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This study explores the construction of a faceted vocabulary that can be used as a mechanism for organizing Webbased resources. After analyzing the manual process of faceted vocabulary construction using existing organizational structures to identify ...
Yang, Kiduk   +4 more
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