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	Phonestheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A phonestheme or phonaestheme in a systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language, which is unlike a morpheme in that it does not meet the normal criterion of compositionality.
		Phonesthemes are of critical interest to students of the internal structure of words because they appear to be a case where the internal structure of the word is non-compositional.
		The first is through corpus studies, where the words of a language are subjected to statistical analysis, and the particular form-meaning pairing, or phonestheme, is shown to constitute a statistically unexpected distribution in the lexicon or not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phonestheme (847 words)

	The Influence of Phonesthesia on the English Language
		A phonestheme is a sound, sound cluster, or sound type that is directly associated with a meaning.
		Phonesthemes are furthermore a glimpse into our linguistic future: English will not last forever, but it is highly likely that at least some of its phonesthemes will last until the end of human language itself.
		A phonestheme is a type of minimal sign: the same speaker always pronounces instances of the same phonestheme in the same way.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Studios/9783/phonpap1.html (1896 words)

	"Phonesthemes in Swedish" by Åsa Abelin
		Phonesthemes are sound symbolic units of phonemes and meaning.
		A phonestheme can be described as "the grouping of similar meanings about similar sounds" (Bolinger, 1965) or as "a phoneme or cluster of phonemes shared by a group of words which also have in common some element of meaning or function, though the words may be etymologically unrelated" (Householder, 1946).
		To qualify as a phonestheme at least two words with the same initial consonant sequence and similar meaning should be found in the lexical material, and the likeness should not come from trivial morphological relatedness like derivation of e.g.
	www.ling.gu.se /~abelin/phonest.html (1058 words)

	Phonaestheme or Phonestheme
		Discussion: * A phonestheme may be a single speech sound, or two or more sounds joining to express one meaning in the word.
		It is conceivable that a certain whole root (e.g., an interjection) may be entirely made up of one phonestheme, in the case that the sequence of sounds is attested as a phonestheme in a root elsewhere, with the same meaning.
		Examples of phonesthemes and non-phonesthemes: glimmer, glow, glitter, etc: gl- is, presumably, a meaningful part of the root, and it occurs "regularly" in a number of words.
	www.trismegistos.com /_soundandsense/00000012.htm (379 words)

	Dictionary of English Phonesthemes Part 1
		Many of the phonesthemes herein have outlasted the language of their origin; many will likely outlast English.
		Indo-European roots, as you might surmise, are the fundamental roots of most of the phonesthemes contained in this dictionary.
		In fact, it could be said that phonesthemes are to English words what Indo-European roots are to phonesthemes-- only more so.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html (789 words)

	The Phonosemantics of Norwegian and English SH
		Phonestheme: A phonological form which is disproportionately associated with a particular limited semantic class.
		The best known example of an English /S/ phonestheme is the phonestheme for 'destruction' or 'violent contact' which holds primarily of monosyllables which have the /S/ in final position in words like 'crash', 'bash', 'smush', 'squish', 'smash'.
		So you identify the Norwegian phonestheme which corresponds to the English phonestheme of 'violent contact' if there is one.
	www.conknet.com /~mmagnus/SH.html (3858 words)

	The Meaning of R in Second Position
		For example, you may match up the 'breaking' phonestheme you have made for /br/ with the 'fracturing' phonestheme you have made for /fr/.
		This is the phenomenon I refer to as 'clustering': phonesthemes are even more narrowly defined than they need to be given the characteristics of the phonemes involved.
		This phonestheme also occurs when /r/ is in second position after a stopped consonant.
	www.conknet.com /~mmagnus/lrs.html (3007 words)

	Semantic Compositions: Pardon my French
		The notion of "phonesthemes" has long been one of the more dubious ideas in the study of language, at least among linguists.
		In spite of the meme's rather dismal reputation, some people have gone ahead and tried to catalogue evidence for some of these alleged correspondences anyways.
		The late Dwight Bolinger, a linguist of impeccable reputation, wrote a paper speculating about evidence for phonesthemes from an American Indian language (the reference can be found here; see here for a list he was partially responsible for compiling).
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2004/03/pardon_my_frenc.html (593 words)

	Morphological Paradoxes
		Sound symbolism may extend even to the phonestheme (see the examples below, for most of which I am indebted to Bolinger 1975:218-220).
		Those concerning the phonestheme have received as little attention as they have partly because we have not known how to deal with the phonesthemes within a morphological theory based on the morpheme.
		The phonestheme may yet become nothing more than a subspecies of the exponent.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~bender/paradox.html (3821 words)

	UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 42, no. 1 (2003)
		However, the great majority of n- initial forms that refer to the oral/nasal area appear to be peculiar to a single attested language or lowlevel subgroup, and suggest that this sound-meaning correlation continued to be productive through some six millennia of linguistic history.
		The problem of historical transmission that the phonestheme n- raises is a general one encountered wherever submorphemes are widely shared in noncognate forms.
		However this problem is ultimately solved, the fact of historical transmission shows that the phonestheme is a psychologically real unit of linguistic structure that can persist through hundreds of generations of speakers.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL421.html (1099 words)

	North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics - Jean-Jacques Lecercle: "The Remainder Revisited..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most visible of such series being the series of phonesthemes on lines 13 and 14.
		A phonestheme is a word whose meaning is partly determined by its sound, without any fixed correspondence between signifier and signified.
		Their main characteristic is that they seem to contravene the arbitrariness of the sign: thus, in the words, “spit”, “splash”, “spray”, “spout”, “sputter”, one can hear a “forceful outward motion”, but the phonestheme “sp” is certainly not a morpheme.
	nacip.net /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=83 (5580 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: The Wrong Side of Dawn
		Last week: Get my independent study (a cross-linguistic computational implementation of coordination syntax and semantics) whipped into shape, give an hour-and-a-half lecture on coordination to a grammar engineering class, then shepherd them through that week's lab assignment: using my implementation to add support for coordination to the natural language grammars they're developing.
		Sit in on the final session of the grammar engineering class to see the students grammars put through their paces.
		Thursday: Give a super-compressed ten-minute version of the phonestheme talk to an audience of skeptical-looking engineers (for a grade).
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/06/the_wrong_side_.html (488 words)

	A Bibliography of Synaesthesia and Phonaesthesia
		Inquiries about this document should be directed to {golan at flong dot com}.
		Keywords: synesthesia, synaesthesia, phonesthesia, phonaesthesia, phonestheme, phonetic symbolism, sound symbolism, linguistic iconism, chromesthesia, chromaesthesia, cross-modal mapping, multi-modal mapping, bibliography, references, articles.
		Householder, F.W. On the Problem of Sound and Meaning, and English Phonesthemes.
	www.flong.com /synesthesia (6123 words)

	Semantic Compositions: Pharmaceutical phonesthemes
		Some time ago, SC wrote about phonesthemes, a theoretical attempt to suggest that the pairing of sound and meaning is not arbitrary.
		Yesterday, this notion crossed paths with another SC favorite, Pfizer (no, I'm not obsessed, not me), in the form of an investment newsletter piece (no link available) on two upcoming drugs to be released by the company in the next 24 months.
		Not to mention Xanax and Zithromax, and I wonder whether the unstressed final syllable in "naproxen" makes it a candidate as well.
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2004/12/pharmaceutical_.html (501 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: April 30, 2006 - May 6, 2006 Archives
		I am The Tensor, and I approve this post.
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		In reading some articles for a paper I'm writing on phonesthemes, I came across an impressive bit of IPA gymnastics I thought I'd share.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/week18 (988 words)

	lucaskrech: Invisible Art
		I do think it's an interesting question of how much our own decision about vocabulary influences the choices we can make.
		an interesting side note for the intersection of light and linguistics: English may have a /gl-/ phonestheme having to do with light.
		I wrote a paper on phonesthemes in college and my conclusion was that the evidence is pretty fuzzy, but it's fun!
	lucaskrech.livejournal.com /2032.html (1851 words)

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	SilverJacket: Film
		Wait, there's a word for this, and I read about this word THIS VERY DAY." Fucking incredible.
		The word is phonestheme and it describes a type of sound-meaning association.
		To top it off, Jamie, under the moniker Jonny 5, has an album called Onomatopoeia!
	silverjacket.typepad.com /blog/film (1042 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.1779: Jespersen's Theories; Phonesthemes/Ideophones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Where can I find more information about this issue?
		Can anybody tell me the difference between a phonestheme and an ideophone?
		Both seem to be very interesting areas of research, but I'm finding it difficult to distinguish between them.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-1779.html (247 words)

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