[Corpora-List] Do we still need language corpora?

Francis Tyers ftyers at prompsit.com
Mon Feb 7 16:37:50 UTC 2011


El dl 07 de 02 de 2011 a les 16:36 +0000, en/na Justin Washtell va
escriure:
> I expect that phonesthemes hold the answer:
> 
> Blark resembles baulk, blurt, bark and berk, as well as blargh 
> and blurgh and other sounds that people sometimes make when vomiting.
> 
> Bl also begins bleed[ing] (and bloomin'), blood[y], blight[ed], blither, blather and bludgeon.
> 
> I'm am looking forward to the day that computational models of 
> semantics, sentiment and translation explore/exploit this basic linguistic phenomenon.

At the risk of cluttering the list further, I'll add that to me it has
always conjured up the images of "bleak" and "dark".

Fran


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