This essay considers the sound of Arnold Schoenberg’s Klavierstück , op. 33a, discussing aesthetic effects combinatoriality and pitch repetition. In taking John Rahn’s general advice regarding listening to Schoenberg “late at night with lights off,” two compelling parallels psycholinguistic phenomena emerge—one dealing semantic satiation, other a related experience called verbal transformation ...

Verbal insults go against a universal moral imperative not to inflict harm on others, and they also pose threat one's face or reputation. As such, these “verbal slaps in the face” provide unique opportunity explore interface between language emotion. We used electroencephalography (EEG) skin conductance (SC) recordings compare short-term impact of verbal such as “Linda is an idiot” “Paula horri...

One of the most robust laws of memory is that repeated activation improves memory. Our study shows that the nature of repetition matters. Specifically, although both negated repetition and affirmative repetition improve memory compared with no repetition, negated repetition hinders memory compared with affirmative repetition. After showing participants different entities, we asked them about fe...

PURPOSE This study compared performance of children on 2 tests of nonword repetition to investigate the factors that may contribute to the well-documented nonword repetition deficit in specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD Twelve children with SLI age 7 to 11 years, 12 age-matched control children, and 12 control children matched for language ability completed 2 tests of nonword repetiti...

in razi’s view, faith and safety, is a root taken from the words of “tasdigh (confirming)” and “aman (safety)” and in literature it means “recognization and confirimation by heart”and “admitting by words”; when recognition by heart is achieved, verbal confession is also achieved. he believes that the conceptual bases of faith are “recognition and accepting by heart” and “verbal confession” and ...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that patients with amnesia have a reduced effect of word repetition upon the late positive component of the event related potential (ERP), which peaks at around 600 ms after word onset. OBJECTIVE To study a word repetition ERP paradigm in subjects with mild cognitive impairment. SUBJECTS 14 patients with mild cognitive impairment (mean mini-mental state exami...

The Cha’palaa language of northwestern Ecuador is characterized by the relatively high functional load it places on reduplication; it applies a variety of distinct types of reduplication across different word classes and construction types. This paper describes four major types of reduplication in Cha’palaa: full and partial repetition of ideophones (not a fully grammaticalized reduplication ty...