Acceptance as an Integral Factor in the Interpretation of Novel Words  

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Smyk-Bhattacharjee, Dorota

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 3 no. 2 (Feb. 2006), page 28-36.
Topik: word-formation; interpretation; acceptance; blogs; corpus
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Two contributing factors in the interpretation of the novel word are discussed in this paper: (1) speaker acceptability, and (2) the expected unfamiliarity with the new formation, of the potential reader. The study presented here is based on a corpus that comes from samples taken from English language blogs, and currently consists of one million words of text. Writers often give clear clues as to whether the words form part of their lexicon. They also make predictions of whether the word familiarity will be shared by the readers. After filtering out the already established words, the remaining novel formations are classified according to the lexical distance manifested by the writer.

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