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Appendix C
This appendix includes the questionnaire given to English and Catalan speakers, to
whom a kind of introduction was given.
Questionnaire for English speakers
Speakers of any language are creative and can form new words every day without
noticing. In the following sentences, there are two possible verbs, most of which you
won’t probably have heard or used before. But, if you had to use one, which one would
you choose? Which one sounds better? Please circle or underline the verb you choose.
Many thanks for taking part in this experiment.
1. John drove home from work. When he arrived home he garaged / engaraged
the car, because he didn’t need it until the following day.
2. The villagers didn’t have a boat to cross the river and they needed one
desperately. So they decided to enraft / raft some logs together.
3. Nancy emperfumed / perfumed the girl before leaving home.
4. He jammed / enjammed his toast for breakfast.
5. Hundreds of spots have enuglied / uglied the teenager’s face.
6. The dressmaker had to create an original piece of work for a contest, and she
decided that she would enleaf / leaf the jumper she had just finished.
7. She had embeautied / beautied since she had put on some weight.
8. Her sister jugged / enjugged the water, as her father had told her.
9. The king poored / empoored the servant by taking away all his possessions.
10. Julie was bored, so she decided to pencil / empencil the schoolbag
11. The boyfriend bouqueted / embouqueted the flowers for his girlfriend.
12. She kept all the poems he had written to her. In fact, she had booked /
embooked all of them.
13. The photographer smalled / ensmalled the picture because it didn’t fit into the
photo frame.
14. He endrawered / drawered the jumper. The weather was warm and he decided
he wouldn’t take it.
15. Little John was playing with shells on the beach. After a while, he embucketted
/ bucketted them. He wanted to take them home to show them to his grandma.
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