The submorphemic conjecture in English: towards a distributed model of the cognitive dynamics of submorphemes

Bottineau, Didier

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“…They suggested that both iconicity and systematicity motivate phonaesthemic associations. Various authors hypothesised a possible iconic origin of phonaesthemes; for a clearer vision, please refer to Abelin, 2012;Bolinger, 1950;Bottineau, 2008;Rhodes, 1994. On the other hand, we also dispose of explanations that consider phonaesthemes rather as a matter of statistical clustering, in order to justify the attraction of other lexical items and ease the creation of new related words. From this point of view, phonaesthemic associations might be conventional and, therefore, learned.…”

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Between Synchrony and Diachrony: The Multimodal Nature of Phonaesthemes

Pozza¹,

Civale²

2022

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Knowledge about phonaesthesia has particularly been deepened since 1930 until now. Starting from John Wallis’ first thoughts on the subject in 1653 via the contributions from John Rupert Firth’s post-1930s’ studies, the phenomenon has seen a growing interest as the result of the consolidated – but still to some extent arbitrary – interactions between meaning and sound over time. This paper focuses on some relevant issues in the field of diachronic linguistics, especially in connection with etymological reconstruction, to evaluate phenomena that, in a certain sense, appear to be correlated with the idea of a posteriori re-motivation by the speaker, investigating phonaesthemes’ conceptual organization around some meaningful morpho-phonological clusters derived from Proto Indo-European, always connected with analogical associations. It also reasons about the stability of the root itself, due to fundamental characteristics of human cognition and broader social contexts in which language is used. Besides diachrony, the psycholinguistic relevance of phonaesthemic clusters is synchronically highlighted both in productivity – especially within the Germanic branch, English above all – and in comprehension processes, because their faciliatory priming effect seems to guide the speaker towards a better experience of understanding and to ease the progressive and natural addition of patterned neologisms after an existing word, in order to make them compatible with the original sets. The purpose of this contribution is to offer a general overview of the issue, trying, at the same time, to show how the phenomenon of phonaesthesia can also be read in the interaction between synchrony and diachrony, even if synchrony, for obvious reasons, remains the privileged investigation filter.

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Between Synchrony and Diachrony: The Multimodal Nature of Phonaesthemes

Pozza¹,

Civale²

2022

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“…L'objectif de cet article est de poser les bases d'une méthode de lexicologie énactive en appliquant les postulats de l'énaction au niveau submorphologique à la suite de Bottineau (2008Bottineau ( , 2010Bottineau ( , 2012a. Nous utilisons pour cela la théorie de la saillance submorphologique (Grégoire, 2012a(Grégoire, , 2014a2015) qui postule que seul un élément du signifiant est exploité pour un même mot en fonction des synchronies et des énoncés.…”

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This paper lays some foundations for a method of enactive lexicology by applying the postulates of enaction at the submorphological level following Bottineau (2008Bottineau ( , 2010Bottineau ( , 2012a. We use the theory of submorphemic saliencing (Grégoire, 2012a(Grégoire, , 2014a2015), which postulates that only one of the signifier's characteristics is exploited for a given word according to synchronic events and utterances.

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Towards an enactive lexicology: From muscle salience to signifying

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2017

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This paper lays some foundations for a method of enactive lexicology by applying the postulates of enaction at the submorphological level following Bottineau (2008, 2010, 2012a, b). We use the theory of submorphemic saliencing (Author 2012a, 2014a,b; 2015), which postulates that only one of the signifier’s characteristics is exploited for a given word according to synchronic events and utterances. The enaction of form and meaning underpinned by this saliencing process therefore involves the activation of one part and the inhibition of the rest of the morphology, analogously to muscular and neural functions. It is also a phenomenon that is at once « perc-active », simplex and vicarious according to the definitions of Berthioz (1997, 2009, 2013).

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“…Dans le lexique anglais, il existe des matrices consonantiques communes à des groupes lexicaux fédérés par un mode d'accès empirique fédérateur (Bottineau 2008). Par exemple, on peut montrer que la séquence <sp> est liée à la notion de rotation, d'éjection par force centrifuge et de projection : elle est commune à spin « rotation rapide », « essorage », span « envergure » (ailes déployées d'un oiseau), spear « javelot », spit « cracher », spew « vomir », speak « parler ».…”

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The submorphemic conjecture in English: towards a distributed model of the cognitive dynamics of submorphemes

Cited by 19 publications

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Between Synchrony and Diachrony: The Multimodal Nature of Phonaesthemes

Between Synchrony and Diachrony: The Multimodal Nature of Phonaesthemes

Towards an enactive lexicology: From muscle salience to signifying

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