Philosophy

M. Tsibalashvili

The Influences of Context and Sound on Understanding of the Meaning of an Unknown Word

It has been proved experimentally that the word sounding mainly fluencies on its meaning. The unknown word "chakanaka" was valued negatively, but "nigotta" positively. We searched the fluency issue between sounding and context.

We placed "chakanaka" in positive context, and the "nigotta" in negative. We as well compared the value of unknown words placed in such context with the opposite contextual same word values.

12 years old children valued "nigotta" and "chakanaka" differentially. But generally both words have been valued positively, means context made its own fluency.

 

 
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