Source estimates indicated parieto-temporo-occipital generators for the factors Length, Letter n-gram frequency and Word frequency, but widespread activation with foci in left anterior temporal lobe and inferior frontal cortex related to Semantic coherence.
First, 10 psycholinguistic features of each of 300 stimulus words were submitted to a principal component analysis, which yielded four orthogonal variables likely to reflect separable processes in visual word recognition: Word length, Letter n-gram frequency, Lexical frequency and Semantic coherence of a word's morphological family.
Word groups were matched for length, letter bigram and trigram frequency, number of orthographic neighbors (Coltheart's N [Coltheart et al. 1977]), and number of meanings (see Supplementary Table S1) but differed substantially in the ratings of their semantic links to action and emotion and in imageability (Fig. 1).
The influence on meaningfulness ratings of the following five factors was examined: association, LSA distance, letter length, phrase frequency, and summed word frequency (Table 3).
"Account Rendered" is written in the form of a second book-length letter.
To be sure, Woolf and the unnamed addressee of this book-length letter are not any two people.
Reading David Foster Wallace's latest novel, "Infinite Jest," I couldn't help thinking at times about 7-year-old Seymour Glass's book-length "letter" home from camp, published in The New Yorker in 1965 as "Hapworth 16, 1924". I felt a similar feeling of admiration alloyed with impatience veering toward strained credulity.
Sixteen years later, Wilde traced the same downward arc in "De Profundis," the annihilating book-length letter that he wrote in prison to Alfred Douglas, his former lover: "Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensations".
In late June 2005, I reviewed Cleave's first novel, Incendiary, which took the form of a book-length "letter" from a working-class woman (brilliantly ventriloquised by Cleave) to Osama bin Laden after the suicide bombing of Arsenal football stadium, in which her husband and son have perished.
The heterosexual Coates, it seems, in overwhelmingly centering around the experiences of black straight men in both his book-length letter, Between the World and Me, and his 2008 memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Fatherm Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, disqualifies himself as a Baldwin child.
Take the 50-length letter sequence described above as an example.
