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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971445203321

Titolo

The mental lexicon : core perspectives / / edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; London : , : Elsevier, , 2007

ISBN

9786611118778

9781281118776

128111877X

9780080548692

0080548695

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JaremaGonia

LibbenGary

Disciplina

401/.4

Soggetti

Lexicology - Psychological aspects

Psycholinguistics

REFERENCE

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Vocabulary

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

Preliminary Material -- 1: Introduction: Matters Of Definition And Core Perspectives -- 2: Putting Humpty Together Again: Synthetic Approaches To Nonlinear Variable Effects Underlying Lexical Access / Chris F. Westbury and Geoff Hollis -- 3: Visual Word Recognition: Problems And Issues / Kenneth I. Forster -- 4: Language: Between Words And Grammar / Mark Aronoff -- 5: Storage And Computation In The Mental Lexicon / R. H. Baayen -- 6: Generative Morphology As Psycholinguistics / James Myers -- 7: Origins Of Cross-Language Differences In Word Recognition / Laurie Beth Feldman and Dana M. Basnight-Brown -- 8: Productivity In Word Formation / Wolfgang U. Dressler -- 9: BILINGUAL LEXICA / Loraine K. Ohler and Mira Goral -- 10: Skills And Representations In Learning To Spell And In Experienced Spellers / Dominiek Sandra.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume reflects a consensus that the investigation of words in the



mind offers a unique opportunity to understand both human language ability and general human cognition. It brings together key perspectives on the fundamental nature of the representation and processing of words in the mind. This thematic volume covers a wide range of views on the fundamental nature of representation and processing of words in the mind and a range of views on the investigative techniques that are most likely to reveal that nature. It provides an overview of issues and developments in the field. It uncovers the processes of word recognition. It develops new models of lexical processing.