MENTAL LEXICON_ 1

Language is a communication system employing arbitrary symbols.

Form, meaning and manner of use.

Dictionaries: book and machine readable.

The mental lexicon is conceived as a network of nodes.

Word stores

How vocabulary stored in the mind?

Lexicon: Central component of a natural language processing system.

It is always necessary to think of mental lexicon as a theoretical construct.

MENTAL LEXICON

Lexical access units: Is the item with which, the mental lexicon is contacted.

Lexical entries

Lexical specification: Is the information that is associated with each lexical entry.

Spreading activation theory

Network model or lexical access

Models of mental lexicon

The tip-of-the tongue Phenonemon-Syntactic and conceptual components. -Phonetic components

Multiplex model of mental lexicon

Partitioning

Against mental lexicon

Speech errors.- Errors supports this subdivision.

-Pronunciation-Category

This knowledge includes information

-Part of speech -Meaning

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-Syntactic properties -Level of formality

Mental Lexicon

*The Gavagai problem*Fast mapping

Morphemes, words, idiomatic phrases

The organization of the mental lexicon: storage versus rules

The acquisition of lexical knowledge

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Construct complex words using rules of word formation.

*Lexical Contrast Principle*Whole Object Principle.

*Mutual Exclusivity Principle

“Words and rules”