Relative frequency and semantic relations as organizing principles for the psychological reality of phonaesthemes [PDF]
, 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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El lexicón como origen del carácter dinámico de los sistemas de escritura [PDF]
, 2016 En el marco de la lingüística actual parece ya posible contemplar el lenguaje escrito como un sistema dinámico adaptativo que se configuraría a partir del uso en el lexicón mental de los usuarios; si bien en el devenir evolutivo de la expresión escrita ...
Pérez-Rodríguez, José Henrique; Universidad de Vigo
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A Hybrid Approach to Faceted Classification Based on Analysis of Descriptor Suffixes [PDF]
, 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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Not just form, not just meaning: Words with consistent form-meaning mappings are learned earlier. [PDF]
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2022 Cassani G, Limacher N.
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The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? [PDF]
Psychon Bull Rev, 2023 Lev-Ari S, McKay R.
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IS THAT WHICH GLITTERS IN ENGLISH ALSO GOLD IN SPANISH? Exploration of Bilingual Phonaestheme Transfer [PDF]
Phonaesthemes, or interlexical repetitions of phoneme clusters sharing an element of meaning across sets of words in a language, are noteworthy form~meaning pairings indicative of compositionality within a word that are neither phones nor morphemes in ...
Brown, Esther L.
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Arbitrariness of Linguistic Sign Questioned: Correlation between Word Form and Meaning in Russian [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we present the results of preliminary experiments on finding the link between the surface forms of Russian nouns (as represented by their graphic forms) and their meanings (as represented by vectors in a distributional model trained on the
Kutuzov, Andrei
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Children and adults' understanding and use of sound-symbolism in novel words [PDF]
, 2011 Sound-symbolism is the inherent link between the sound of a word and its meaning. The aim of this thesis is to gain an insight into the nature of sound-symbolism.
Kantartzis, Katerina Fransesca
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Sound and lexical semantics [PDF]
This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art of the ways in which the meaning of sounds — traditionally regarded as a paradox — are studied within linguistics.
Thomas Van Hoey
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Applied psycholinguistic models of English phonaesthetic effects in L1 and L2: a theoretical and experimental study [PDF]
, 1995 The area of sound symbolism has been the subject of linguistic investigation throughout the twentieth century. These linguistic studies, which have generally involved detailed analyses of the meanings connoted by individual phonemes both within and ...
Bowles H
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