The sound patterns of English nicknames
The English lexicon has been found to reflect certain recognisable phonological preferences in relation to consonants, vowels, stress patterns and syllabic structure, and these trends have been reflected in sharper terms in analyses of particular subsets of vocabulary: phonaesthetic words (Crystal,...
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Language Sciences
1997
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011581 |