• A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning. It is a specific type...
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  • and phonetic similarity with (meaningful) words, as is the case with pseudowords, which make no sense but can still be pronounced in accordance with a...
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  • Ginsu (⫽ˈɡɪnsuː⫽; pseudoword meant to evoke the idea of samurai heritage) is a brand of direct marketed knives. The brand is owned by the Douglas Quikut...
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  • Look up runcible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Runcible" is a pseudoword invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times...
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  • song peaked at No. 12 in the UK Singles Chart. The song’s title is a pseudoword Collins randomly came up with during a practice session. Collins has said...
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    to be appealing and marketable. The brand name is often a neologism or pseudoword, such as Kodak or Sony. In the ancient world, particularly in the ancient...
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  • grammatically proper way, similar to the English language phrases using the pseudoword "gostak". It was suggested by Russian linguist Lev Shcherba. The full...
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  • be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders...
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    (2013). "Can cognitive models explain brain activation during word and pseudoword reading? A meta-analysis of 36 neuroimaging studies". Psychological Bulletin...
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  • song "Haru Mamburu" (Russian: Хару Мамбуру) is composed completely from pseudoword vocables without any meaningful text. Pseudo-Latin is sometimes used in...
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  • prevailing usage in each era. Idiom (language structure) Lacuna model Pseudoword, a unit that appears to be a word in a language but has no meaning in...
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    had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher Pseudoword Syntax‐semantics interface Comparative illusion, also known as Escher...
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    Basis of the Sound-Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Pseudowords and Visual Shapes". Multisensory Research. -1 (aop): 29–78. doi:10...
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  • English, where they have little formal meaning and are rarely purposeful. Pseudowords that mimic the structure of real words are used in experiments in psycholinguistics...
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    tunings, and has been compared to Novo Amor, Bon Iver, and Imogen Heap. a pseudoword pronounced hay-ull-ache-err Tullett later adopted "Lowswimmer" as his...
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    /ʂăk˧˥/ and /săk˧˥/ in Saigon dialect respectively. Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and...
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  • recognition. The term "masked" refers to the fact that the prime word or pseudoword is masked by symbols such as ###### that can be presented in a forward...
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  • kuzdra Jabberwocky Nadsat Part-of-speech tagging Philosophy of language Pseudoword Semantics Stanley Unwin Ingraham, Andrew (1903). Swain School Lectures...
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  • answering oral questions about reading passages, silent reading speed). Pseudoword (phonetic) Decoding: assesses the ability to apply phonetic decoding skills...
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  • "pseudowords" that were repeated randomly. After exposure to the speech streams for two minutes, infants reacted differently to hearing "pseudowords"...
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    two ________. Each "target" word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that...
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  • Auditory processing disorder Phoneme Phonemic awareness Phonics Phonology Pseudoword Reading Synthetic phonics Ramus, Franck (2001). "Dyslexia: Talk of two...
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  • mal to be bigger than mil. This phenomenon is not only observable in pseudowords, but present throughout English vocabulary as well. In many languages...
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    treatment, which was explicit, had the highest effect sizes for both pseudoword and real-word reading." It was recognized from the study that the most...
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  • identification within words is compared to letter identification within pseudowords (e.g. "WOSK") and pseudohomophones (e.g. "WERK"). The effect was first...
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  • hemisphere activation when actual words were presented as opposed to pseudowords. Two important aspects of speech recognition are phonetic cues, such...
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  • either visually or auditorily, with a mixture of words and logatomes or pseudowords (nonsense strings that respect the phonotactic rules of a language, like...
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  • do words with small neighborhoods. This finding also holds true for pseudowords, or pronounceable letter strings that are not real words (e.g. flom)...
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  • unfamiliar object, i.e., the egg piercer, even if they have never heard that pseudoword before. Children as young as 15 months can complete this task successfully...
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  • participants read a list of high or low frequency words along with nonwords (or pseudowords). They were tasked with pronouncing the words or nonwords as fast as...
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