On the role of creativity in the formation of new complex words

This article presents the results of a large-scale interdisciplinary project aimed at a corroboration of the role of creativity in the way university undergraduates (  = 309) coin new complex words. Specifically, the tendency towards economy of expression, preferred by a speaker, and the tendency to...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Linguistics 2021-07, Vol.59 (4), p.1017-1055
Hauptverfasser:	Körtvélyessy, Lívia, Štekauer, Pavol, Kačmár, Pavol
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Complexity Creativity economy of expression Opacity Psycholinguistics semantic transparency Semantics Torrance test of creative thinking Word formation
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