A few months ago, a paper of mine came back from peer review with a comment I have seen in various forms throughout my career. The reviewer acknowledged that the results were statistically significant...

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This study investigates whether phonemic Surprisal in English words is systematically elevated for semantically vivid meanings, extending prior resear…

Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our memory.

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This two-part meta-study explores the relationship of Shannon’s information and iconicity in American English, with a focus on their implications for cognitive processing and the evolution of lexemes....

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PDF | This meta-study explores the relationships between humor, phonemic bigram surprisal, emotional valence, and memory recall. Prior research... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

This Dictionary is the first etymological dictionary of English imitative (onomato-poeic, mimetic) words. Imitative words (e.g. crash, bang, achoo) are ...

PDF | This study investigates the relationship between emotional valence, phonemic bigram surprisal, and memory in American English. We hypothesize that... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...