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In thinking, the association of words by sound rather than meaning, after resulting in nonsensical rhymes and puns.
Ãâó: www.med.umich.edu/nursing/psych/staff/orient/words...
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| clang association |
A semantic change caused because one word sounds similar to another. For instance, the word fruition in Middle English meant "enjoyment." In Modern English, its meaning has changed to "completion" because it sounds like the word fruit--hence the idea of ripeness, of growing to full size, as Algeo notes (314).
Ãâó: web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_C.html
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