Does the mental lexicon exist?
One of the central and mostintriguing components of language processing to researchers is the mentallexicon. The term was used for the first time by Ann Triesman in 1961 and westill do not have clear answers on how it is structured and how muchinformation it contains, or even if there is something t...
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| description | One of the central and mostintriguing components of language processing to researchers is the mentallexicon. The term was used for the first time by Ann Triesman in 1961 and westill do not have clear answers on how it is structured and how muchinformation it contains, or even if there is something to be called a mentallexicon. For some time, mental lexicon has been compared to a mental dictionaryboth storing and organizing word knowledge; however, they are surely differentin structure and quantity/quality of information. Neuroimaging studies havealso tried to bring contributions to these questions. Some researchers believethat there are many lexicons, one for each level of stored information (ULLMAN,2007): orthographic, phonological, semantic and syntactic lexicons. Another group of researchers (MCCLELLAND;ROGERS, 2003; SEIDENBERG, 1997, etc.) postulates the existence of only onelexicon where all information levels are integrated. Recently, a new audaciousproposal has been done by Elman (2009), the inexistence of a mental lexicon. Inthis paper, we discuss the different views of mental lexicon structure andcontent. We try to proceed on the discussion of Elman’s new proposal andconfront it to data obtained by behavioral, neuroimaging and computationalstudies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5e87a5fd737546d092b706b77b87c5dd2022-12-21T23:48:00ZengUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisRevista de Estudos da Linguagem0104-05882237-20832015-09-0123233536110.17851/2237-2083.23.2.335-3617540Does the mental lexicon exist?Lucilene Bender de Sousa0Rosangela Gabriel1Doutoranda em Letras PUCRSUnisc - Universidade de Santa Cruz do SulOne of the central and mostintriguing components of language processing to researchers is the mentallexicon. The term was used for the first time by Ann Triesman in 1961 and westill do not have clear answers on how it is structured and how muchinformation it contains, or even if there is something to be called a mentallexicon. For some time, mental lexicon has been compared to a mental dictionaryboth storing and organizing word knowledge; however, they are surely differentin structure and quantity/quality of information. Neuroimaging studies havealso tried to bring contributions to these questions. Some researchers believethat there are many lexicons, one for each level of stored information (ULLMAN,2007): orthographic, phonological, semantic and syntactic lexicons. Another group of researchers (MCCLELLAND;ROGERS, 2003; SEIDENBERG, 1997, etc.) postulates the existence of only onelexicon where all information levels are integrated. Recently, a new audaciousproposal has been done by Elman (2009), the inexistence of a mental lexicon. Inthis paper, we discuss the different views of mental lexicon structure andcontent. We try to proceed on the discussion of Elman’s new proposal andconfront it to data obtained by behavioral, neuroimaging and computationalstudies.http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/5642linguistic knowledgemental lexiconnetwork architecturelanguage processinglanguage description |
| spellingShingle | Lucilene Bender de Sousa Rosangela Gabriel Does the mental lexicon exist? Revista de Estudos da Linguagem linguistic knowledge mental lexicon network architecture language processing language description |
| title | Does the mental lexicon exist? |
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| title_short | Does the mental lexicon exist? |
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| topic | linguistic knowledge mental lexicon network architecture language processing language description |
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