Methodological and analytic frontiers in lexical research [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema, Chris Westbury

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779311603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-89526-9; 90-272-7332-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (475 p.)
• Collana: Benjamins current topics ; ; 47
• Altri autori (Persone): LibbenGary; JaremaGonia; WestburyChris
• Disciplina: 413.028
• Soggetti: Lexicology - Methodology; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Linguistic models; Applied linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; The challenge of embracing complexity; New approaches to data analysis; The role of implemented models; Consequences for the future: the conceptualization of psycholinguistic variables; Note; References; Measures of phonological typicality; Method; The original operationalisation of phonological typicality; Varying parameters of the operationalisation; Validation of the measures; Results; Coherence; Psychological validity; Discussion; Notes; References; Assessing language impairment in aphasiaHistory of aphasia assessment; Aphasia assessment instruments; The future of aphasia assessment; Notes; References; Behavioral profiles; The method and its applications; Behavioral profiles: The method; The polysemy of To Run; The polysemy of 'to get'; Russian verbs meaning 'to try'; Contrastive phasal verbs; Size adjectives; Behavioral profiles and their relation to other methods and theoretical accounts; Exemplar-based models: Their main assumptions/characteristics and relation to BPs; Case-by-case ; based approaches to alternations; Notes; References; Using a maze task to track lexical and sentence processingThe Maze task; The G-maze and the L-maze; Disadvantages of the maze task; The maze task and lexical access; Using a maze task for language learning; Conclusion; References; Stimulus norming; How this approach can advance knowledge; Key domains of application; Currently available hardware and software; Dependent variables; Commonly explored independent variables; New independent variables and new opportunities for the approach; Conclusion; References; Connectionism and the role of morphology in visual word recognition; Connectionism: Theory and applicationsMorphological structure and visual word recognition; Moving forward: Technical issues and problems to be solved; Future directions; Cross-language comparisons; Learning; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Note; References; Towards a localist-connectionist model of word translation; Word translation; The Revised Hierarchical Model; Descriptive adequacy: Does the model retain essential properties of the human processing system and its representations?; Horizontal and vertical generality of the RHM: Can the model generalize across tasks and stimulus sets?; Falsifiability and modifiabilityResearch generativity; The BIA(+) Localist-Connectionist Framework; Recent innovations and developments: Multilink; Orthography (input); Orthographic similarity, word length, and word frequency.; Cognate processing; Semantics (throughput for concept mediation); Phonology (output); Orthography to phonology (throughput for word association); Simulating the word translation process as a whole; Simulating the results of different tasks; Simulating the lexical decision results of Dijkstra et al. (2010); The shape of the future; References; Chinese as a natural experiment
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