List of "English" nonsense words?

[Nitya Sethuraman]

I greatly appreciate the generosity of the members of this list!

In addition to the replies sent to info-childes, a few more references were
sent directly to me:

For a lengthy list of novel verbs: Albright and Hayes (2003) past-tense
paper

For a lengthy list of novel nouns compiled from various previous studies:
Horst, J.S. & Scott, E. J. (2009). Learning Names of Rotated Novel Objects,
Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.

For a short list of novel adjectives: Yoshida, Hanako and Rima Hanania
(2011). If it's red, it's not vap: how competition among words may benefit
early word learning. First Language.
http://fla.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/10/14/0142723711422632
Also see Sandra Waxman's papers for a few more novel adjectives.


Thanks very much again,
Nitya.


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Margaret Fleck <margaretmfleck at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> It might also be good to run an explicit check that the words really are
> nonsense to the specific kids in question.    Just because it's unfamiliar
> to the researcher does not mean it's not a common household
> word for the kids.    I won't say which reputable group used "gorp"
> as a nonsense word.   Our kids were familiar with ikona, dal, and
> pockie from very small.   (Hint:  two are South Africanisms, one
> is a common food if you live near Indians and one of our kids had
> a pash for it as a toddler.)   Unless you're selecting kids from a small
> closed community, it's hard to see how you could design any list
> that could avoid this.    But you could find out at least after the fact
> which words the parents think their kids might know as meaningful.
>
> Margaret Fleck (U. Illinois)
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Info-CHILDES" group.
> To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>  For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.
To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/info-childes/attachments/20121022/3dca1f4c/attachment.htm>