Does the sound of a word (phonology) tell you anything about how it is used (its lexical category)? Or is the relationship arbitrary? The standard view since Saussure has been NO, there is no correlation between word sound and word meaning. However, a recent paper by Cornell University researchers argues that adults do use the relationship between how nouns and verbs sound and how they are used to guide their sentence comprehension.

The paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) to which UBC Library subscribes. Read it here, or, read the news brief from Newswise for a quick summary.

RefWorks is a web based citation management tool that the UBC Library licensed in April 2005.

Starting in August 2006, the UBC Library will have access to the add on module, RefShare. RefShare provides a quick and easy way to share references with others at UBC and globally with researchers who have internet access. RefShare creates of a website for the RefWorks database or folders and allows users to search, export references and/or create bibliographies. The website can be shared on a centrally created RefWorks webpage, posted on a particular website or in WebCt and/or sent to a specific group or person by email.

For more information and instructions on using RefShare, visit the RefWorks Help Guide and click on RefShare.Some uses of RefShare
-post reading lists on a course website (the UBCeLink will also appear and be accessible for UBC students, faculty and staff)
-share a RefWorks database for collaboration with researchers at both UBC or at other institutions
-share a RefWorks database of research done by UBC faculty

View some of the examples of UBC RefShare Databases and Folders

Contact me if you’d like a demo of how RefWorks and RefShare can help you manage and share your research and citations.