The Word and Words

The word-length effect and disyllabic words.

Three experiments compared immediate serial recall of disyllabic words that differed on spoken duration. Two sets of long- and short-duration words were selected, in each case maximizing duration differences but matching for frequency, familiarity, phonological similarity, and number of phonemes, and controlling for semantic associations. Serial recall measures were obtained using auditory and ...

DNA-words and word posets

In the paper two variants of a combinatorial problem for the set F q of sequences of length n over the alphabet Fq = {0, 1, .., q − 1} are considered, with some applications. The original problem was the following: what is the smallest k such that every word v ∈ F q is uniquely determined by the set of its subwords of length up to k. This problem was solved by Lothaire [1]. We consider the foll...

A word about words.

The title of my paper comes from an essay by Václav Havel. In his essay, Havel addressed most evocatively the question of the unique power of words for thinking and to influence, for good or for harm, as well as to inform and to educate. As analysts our medium is the word. I suggest that it is of inestimable importance that we are able to listen deeply to our patients' words and to be aware of ...

Some Words on Word

In many disciplines, the notion of a word is of central importance. For instance, morphology studies le mot comme tel, pris isolément (Mel’čuk, 1993 [74]). In the philosophy of language the word was often considered to be the primary bearer of meaning. Lexicography has as its fundamental role to catalogue the words of a language. Thus, there has been a lot of work on words and on the nature of ...

“The Word and Words in the Abrahamic Faiths” Linda and Larry Poston Nyack College Running head: THE WORD AND WORDS