For more on physiological effects of lingusitic forms, delve into
Margaret Magnus and Robin Alcott:
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/
http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Crackpots, or...?
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> mathias>>>>>>
> Dans un courrier dat? du 26/10/99 18:59:15 , Paul a ?crit :
>
> > OFF: How real do other people find the "dilingo effect" to be? How
linked
> is
> > it
> > to Sapir-Whorf? Is there anything else that produces it as
consistently?
> >
> >
http://www.dilingo.com/
>
> reduplication - whether full or partial - has been a natural feature of
> sumerian and is still in all austronesian, chinese, malayo-polynesian
> and many african languages.
> <<<<<<mathias
>
> Yes. There's a set of partial reduplications buried in the Wenetaic root
> system, if you look hard enough. Perhaps Proto-W. was a reduplicating
>
> My point about the DiLingo effect was more in relation to the physiological
> effects caused by certain linguistic forms. The website mentions (as an
aside,
> on the "Before you Begin" page) certain physical sensations that I'd
started to
> feel while reading the examples (and before I'd read that aside). Although
it's
> hard sometimes to see where the author has inserted grains of truth,
(though
> grains of insight are easier to spot) I think that this may (on one level)
be
> linked somehow to the truth, though the reason he gives for it is a bit
> questionable.
>
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