Agglutination Somatic

What is somatic agglutination?

The term "somatic agglumination" is commonly used to describe a phenomenon in psycholinguistics where words or phrases are joined together in longer sequences without regard to the grammatical relationship between them. This process can lead to misunderstanding or distortion of the message.

Origin of the term

Agglutinative (from Latin agglutinatio - gluing) is a relatively rare property of the syntagmatic structure of a sentence. For example, the sentence “You are paid” can be written somatically correct, but agglutinative, since “paid” functions as an adverb of time, so you need to use “paid” and not “those