@article{oai:osu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002134, author = {テューバー, ダニエル and TEUBER, Daniel}, journal = {大阪産業大学論集 人文・社会科学編, JOURNAL OF OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY Humanities & Social Sciences}, month = {Oct}, note = {The books of children’s author Dr. Seuss are filled with nonce-words—novel word formations that can only be understood within the context of the books. This paper is an attempt to analyze a subset of these nonce-words and their phonological and orthographical structure. A database of 377 words from 33 books was created and the words were analyzed in terms of their internal structure as well as in their context in the books. The author found that a significant amount of these neologisms were likely influenced by the poetic constructs of rhyme and alliteration. In addition, certain characteristics of the nonce-words were examined, and possible reasons are given to explain their use. These characteristics include unusual word-final double consonants, and the extensive use of the letter z.}, pages = {43--69}, title = {An Analysis of the Nonce-Words of Dr. Seuss}, volume = {34}, year = {2018} }