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And given that fact, I would argue that as long as the educational system teaches dictionary definitions as giving lexical meaning and grammatically proper structures as carrying grammatically meaning, we will have (as we do now) the vast bulk of our population functionally illiterate.
For example, one extreme lexical transformation is the nickname Poll which is derived from Mary, in which the m has been both occluded and unvoiced, the a has been retracted, the r has been lingualized, and the y has been dropped. (p. 306.)
For a mechanical and therefore objective lexical comparison I did a spelling check with my Q&A software on the first two paragraphs of Time's August 7, 1989, cover story on anchor woman Diane Sawyer and on the slightly longer first entry in Pepys's Diary , dated January 1, 1660.
In a recent letter in Nature, “Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain,” Alfonso Caramazza and Argye E. Hills reported on patients' relative ability to control specific semantic categories, such as abstract vs. concrete words, animate vs. inanimate, etc., based on the dysfunction of a part of the brain.
Dunning [ 27] demonstrated that unreliable results can be obtained from parametric tests, such as Χ 2, particularly in such cases as lexical analysis.
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