Change-a-Letter Puzzles Reveal How Meaning Emerges
By Marcel Danesi Ph.D.••Psychology Today
Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed verbal thinking occurs through minimal differences of sound within a language. Change-a-Letter puzzles test this theory.
The 19th-century Swiss philologist, Ferdinand de Saussure, is widely acclaimed as a founder of modern-day linguisticsand semiology, for that matter. One of his more interesting theories is that we de…