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Zazzification in American Slang
Get PDFThe coinage zazzification is my expansion of the American slang term zazzy (jazzy, sexy). I use it to designate the strong tendency, in American English, to render words slangier than they already are by substituting a Z-sound (sometimes written ZZ) for other consonants
Eric De Grolier (ed.), Glossogenetics: The origin and evolution of language. Chur, Paris, and New York: Harwood Academic, 1983. Pp. xi + 546.
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Motivated language change: processes involved in the growth and conventionalization of onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
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