Michael Zock and Dan Cristea

You Shall Find the Target Via its Companion Words: Specifications of a Navigational Tool to Help Authors to Overcome the Tip-Of-The-Tongue Problem

Abstract: The ability to retrieve ‘words’ is a prerequisite for speaking or writing. While this seems trivial as we succeed most of the time, it is not simple at all and it can become quite annoying if ever we fail or require too much time. The resulting silence puts pressure on the speaker’s and the listener’s mind, as it disrupts the fluency of encoding (planning what to say) and decoding (interpretation of the linguistic form). When lacking information for a given ‘word’ (for example, its form), we tend to reach for a dictionary. While this works generally quite well ...

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