A Wickelphone is a sequence of three letters or symbols, which occur together in a word. For example, the word strip may be decomposed into a set of trigrams such as rip and str — these are Wickelphones. The term was devised by James McClelland and David Rumelhart in reference to the work of Wayne Wickelgren in 1969.[1] Rumelhart and McClelland then extended the idea by expressing the triples in phonetic terms as Wickelfeatures. For example, the Wickelphone tri would correspond to a Wickelfeature of "stop, lateral, vowel".[2]
References
edit- ^ Steven Pinker, A. Prince (1989), "Language and connectionism", Connections and symbols, MIT Press, p. 89, ISBN 978-0-262-66064-8
- ^ Alexander Bergs (2005), "Personal pronouns", Social networks and historical sociolinguistics, p. 98, ISBN 978-3-11-018310-8
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