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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"mental lexicon"”.
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Towards an Integrated Model of the Mental Lexicon
… have been proposed attempting to describe the mental lexicon-the abstract organization of words in the human mind. Numerous studies have shown that by representing the mental lexicon as a network, where nodes represent words and edges connect similar words using a metric based on some word …
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Inside out: How can the internal structure of the mental lexicon support autonomous foreign vocabulary learning?
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Sizing up the competition: Quantifying the influence of the mental lexicon on auditory, visual, and audiovisual spoken word recognition
… in the context of other words in the mental lexicon: McClelland & Elman, 1986; Norris, 1994; Luce & Pisoni, 1998). The current research evaluated metrics for measuring the influence of the mental lexicon on spoken word recognition in auditory-only: A-only), visual-only: V-only) and …
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Semantic ambiguity in the lexical access of verbs: how data from monolinguals and bilinguals inform a general model of the mental lexicon
This thesis describes an extensive norming study of Spanish verbs and an online language processing study investigating whether bilingual lexical processing is nonselective (both languages are activated) when only one language is required for use. To study bilingual lexical processing, researchers …
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Size matters : a study of English proficiency levels of educated Maltese English speakers through lexical competence
… breadth and to gain insight into the cohort’s mental lexicon, the research focused on word association in the cohort’s native Maltese and their L2, English. The results of this thesis suggest that further study into the correlation between Maltese and English responses to word association tests …
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Vocabulary learning in hypertext
… target vocabulary and the organization of the mental lexicon.
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Mediation Tasks in an eTwinning project Impact on the available vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language in Primary Education
… impact of mediation tasks on the vocabulary and mental lexicon of primary school learners. A telecollaborative project serves as the context for these textual, inter- and intra-linguistic mediation tasks. The theoretical framework of this research is grounded in the sociocultural theory, …
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Production of regular and non-regular verbs : evidence for a lexical entry complexity account
… and creativity of language depends on two fundamental resources: a mental lexicon and a mental grammar. Rules of grammar enable us to produce and understand complex phrases we have not encountered before and at the same time constrain the computation of complex expressions. The concepts of the …
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Processing SMS shortcuts : The contribution of phonology, orthography and semantics.
… word (e.g., blcn-BALCON) are able to access the lexicon, suggesting that the system may be fairly flexible (Dunabeitia & Carreiras, 2011; Peressotti & Grainger, 1999). Further research with familiar abbreviations (e.g., BBC; British Broadcasting Company) suggests that these items are added to the …
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A semantic network approach to second language vocabulary learning and its implementation in a computerized lexical database
… that reflects the associative nature of the mental lexicon and the relationships among various semantic and thematic relations within the semantic network. The issues covered include: the representation of a semantic network, the presentational structure, the components of the semantic …
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The role of first and second language speech rhythm in syntactic ambiguity processing and musical rhythmic aptitude
… hearer is able to retrieve word meaning form his mental lexicon, integrating it with information from other linguistic domains, such as semantics, syntax and pragmatics, until comprehension is achieved. The importance of speech rhythm, however, is not restricted to word segmentation and …
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The Electrophysiology of Written Informal Language
… these new informal words are integrated into our mental lexicon. The current study was an electroencephalographic (EEG) investigation of the brain processes that underlie informal language. We recorded event-related potentials while participants engaged in a lexical decision task. For this …
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Prosodic prominence in English
… an intonational contour is represented in the mental lexicon of English speakers. Some linguists find that speakers are able to reproduce the phonetic details of intonational features, while in other research speakers are better at reproducing intonational features than imitating phonetic …
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Die kortikale Verarbeitung semantischer Domänen : eine ERP-Studie
… or show advantages in processing. However, these mental lexicon structures are still sketchy with regard to psycho- and neurolinguistics. It is still unknown if semantic categories and lexical hierarchies are just a theoretical construct or if they have a cognitive reality. Neurolinguistic …
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Semantic mapping of the bilingual lexicon : form-to-meaning mapping through computerized testing
… study, form-to-meaning mapping of the bilingual mental lexicon is investigated. Sixty native speakers of Arabic, divided into intermediate and advanced ESL groups, served as the participants of the study. They performed a semantic relatedness rating task of sixty high frequency semantically …
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Disponibilidad y riqueza léxica en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios italianos de ELE
… a linguistic-statistical survey on the available lexicon of informants through a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. This test focuses on the vocabulary produced by respondents when prompted with stimuli and collects their mental lexicon. In addition, it was included a further test for …
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Magnetoencephalographic investigations of morphological identity and irregularity
… The model argued for here is one in which the mental lexicon consists of lexical roots (sound -meaning pairs that are arbitrary in the Saussurian sense, such as CAT: 'feline'<->/kaet/) and functional morphemes (affixes such as the plural marker -s, that carry purely grammatical information). …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… from different dialects are also tagged in the mental lexicon, just like words from different languages, and as a consequence, it takes cognitive effort to switch between these mental settings. <b>Study 3</b> explored an additional explanation for language switching costs by investigating …
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Vocabulary Testing and the Influence of Second Language on Third Language Vocabulary Acquisition
… have recently demonstrated that the mental lexicon of a language learner consists of intertwined systems where languages interact with each other, rather than remain separate entities. However, studies that explore how different lexicons are integrated and influence each other in the …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… research on the nature of the bilingual mental lexicon appear somehow inconclusive. On the other hand, cognitive linguistics research on human mental representation tends to focus on evidence from native/monolingual populations. Consequently, this study combines methods from the two …
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