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<P><FONT color=#0000ff size=4>My subscription to <EM>Language</EM> comes to my
office in<BR>Michigan, and I spend the summer in Washington, so<BR>when I
returned this week, what did I find in my<BR>mailbox but Volume 80, Number 2 of
<EM>Language</EM>?<BR><BR>... with an article (pp 290-311) </FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=4>with the following abstract <BR></FONT><FONT
size=4>(from <A
href="http://www.lsadc.org/language/802.pdf">http://www.lsadc.org/language/802.pdf</A>)</FONT></FONT></P><FONT
size=4><B><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>
<P align=left>T</FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold size=2>HE PSYCHOLOGICAL
REALITY OF PHONAESTHEMES</P></B></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Benjamin K. Bergen</P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>
<P align=left>University of Hawai’i at Manoa</P></I></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>The psychological reality of English phonaesthemes is demonstrated
through a priming experiment with native speakers of American English.
Phonaesthemes are well-represented sound-meaning pairings, such as English
</FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>gl</I></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>-, which occurs in numerous words with meanings relating to
light and vision. In the experiment, phonaesthemes, despite being
noncompositional in nature, displayed priming effects much like those that have
been reported for compositional morphemes.<BR>These effects could not be
explained as the result of semantic or phonological priming, either alone or in
combination. The results support a view of the lexicon in which shared form and
meaning across words is a key factor in their relatedness, and in which
morphological composition is not required for internal word structure to play a
role in language processing.</P>
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<P><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>Highly</STRONG> recommended!</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff> -John Lawler </FONT><A
href="http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler">http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler</A><FONT
color=#0000ff> U Michigan Linguistics Dept<BR>
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"Since in human speech, different sounds have different meaning,
to<BR> study the coordination of certain sounds with
certain meanings is to<BR> study language." --
Leonard Bloomfield</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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