Imaginary Words

Paul M. Meara

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Abstract Imaginary words—sometimes also called pseudo‐words, nonsense words, or nonce words—are strings of letters which resemble real words but do not actually exist as words in a specific language. Thus, ‘shern’ is a plausible letter string for English, but does not appear as a word in any of the standard dictionaries.

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1958The Child's Learning of English Morphology 2008A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning 2002358,534 nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database 2004WordGen: A tool for word selection and nonword generation in Dutch, English, German, and French 1969Syllables 2005The Yes/No test as a measure of receptive vocabulary knowledge 2001Examining the Yes/No vocabulary test: some methodological issues in theory and practice

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