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Copyright © 1997, Jay Ligda.  All rights reserved.  Published by Humans in the Universe and Jay Ligda.

Word Boundaries

      Language, according to Pinkler (1994), evolved.  He gives the example of the word orange that evolved from the Spanish word, noranjo.  In using this word in sentence structures, "a noranjo" eventually became "an oranjo."  He refers to this as word boundaries.  He states that, "All speech is illusion.... We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the edge of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary" (Pinkler, 1994, p. 159-160).  This can allow speech to evolve as word boundaries change, words take on new meaning, and are interchanged in sentence structure. 

by Jay Ligda

(This work is a all or part of an original work first published/written for John. F. Kennedy University:  Final Integrative Project., Mar1996.)


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References

  • Pinkler, S. (1994).  The Language Instinct:  How the Mind Creates Language.  New York, NY:  Milliam Morrow & Company.
  • Pearson, D. & Shaw, S. (1982).  Life Extension:  A Practical Scientific Approach.  New York, NY:  Warner.

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