Lexical Representation

Author : Dominiek Sandra,Marcus Taft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933045

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Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical Access (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) by Dominiek Sandra,Marcus Taft Pdf

The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of empirical ones. One theoretical paper discusses several possible motivations for a morphologically organised mental lexicon (like the economy of representation view, and the efficiency of processing view), and lays out the weaknesses that are associated with some of these motivations. The other theoretical paper offers an interactive-activation reinterpretation of the findings that were originally reported within the lexical search framework. The empirical papers together cover a relatively broad array of language types and mainly deal with visual word recognition in normals in the context of lexical morphology (derived and compound words). Evidence is reported on the function of stems and affixes as processing units in prefixed and suffixed derivations. The role of semantic transparency in the lexical representation of compounds is studied, as is the effect of orthographic ambiguity on the parsing of novel compounds. The inflection-derivational distinction is approached in the context of Finnish, a highly agglutinative language with much richer morphology than the languages usually studied in psycholinguistic experiments on polymorphemic words. Two other contributions also approach the study object in the context of relatively uncharted domains: one presents data on Chinese, a language which uses a different script-type (logographic) from the languages that are usually studied (alphabetic script), and another one presents data on language production.

Author : William Marslen-Wilson,Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands),Interfacultaire werkgroep taal- en spraakgedrag (Nimègue, Pays-Bas)
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262631423

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Lexical Representation and Process by William Marslen-Wilson,Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands),Interfacultaire werkgroep taal- en spraakgedrag (Nimègue, Pays-Bas) Pdf

The 18 contributions in Lexical Representation and Process provide a coherent and well-documented frame of reference for a field of study that is becoming central to both linguistics and psycholinguistics.

Author : M. Gareth Gaskell,Pienie Zwitserlood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110224924

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Lexical Representation by M. Gareth Gaskell,Pienie Zwitserlood Pdf

This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes, the processes operating on the speech input to gain access to lexical representations, the modeling and acquisition of these processes, and on the neural underpinnings of lexical representation and process.

Author : Kira Gor,Denisa Bordag,Anna Chrabaszcz,Svetlana V. Cook,Andreas Opitz
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832504130

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Fuzzy Lexical Representations in the Nonnative Mental Lexicon by Kira Gor,Denisa Bordag,Anna Chrabaszcz,Svetlana V. Cook,Andreas Opitz Pdf

Author : Andrew Spencer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191669521

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Lexical Relatedness by Andrew Spencer Pdf

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual shortcomings in the relation between derivational and lexically-derived word forms, Andrew Spencer suggests, call into question the foundation of the inferential-derivational approach. Prototypical instances of inflection and derivation are separated by a host of intermediate types of lexical relatedness, some discussed in the literature, others ignored. Far from finding these an embarrassment Professor Spencer deploys the wealth of types of relatedness in a variety of languages (including Slavic, Uralic, Australian, Germanic, and Romance) to develop an enriched and morphologically-informed model of the lexical entry. He then uses this to build the foundations for a model of lexical relatedness that is consistent with paradigm-based models. Lexical Relatedness is a profound and stimulating book. It will interest all morphologists, lexicographers, and theoretical linguists more generally.

Author : K.P. Mohanan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400937192

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The Theory of Lexical Phonology by K.P. Mohanan Pdf

This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here is in many ways radically different from the one that I proposed in the thesis, and there is a great deal of new data and analyses from English and Malayalam. Chapter VI is so new that I haven't even had the time to try it out on my friends. As everyone knows, research is a collective enterprise, even though an individual's name appears on the first page of the book or article. I would think of this book as a joint project involving dozens of people, in which I acted as the project coordinator, collecting suggestions from a wide variety of sources. Four major influences on what the book contains were Morris Halle, Paul Kiparsky, Mark Liberman, and Joan Bresnan. I learned the ropes of doing research on phonology, phonetics, and morphology from them, and almost everything that I discuss in this book owes its shape ultimately to one of them. Among the others who contributed generously to this book are: Jay Keyser, James Harris, Douglas Pulleyblank, Diana Archangeli, Donca Steriade, Elizabeth Selkirk, Francois Dell, Noam Chomsky, Philip Lesourd, Mohammed Guerssel, Michel Kenstovicz, Raj Singh, Will Leben, Joe Perkell, Victor Zue, Paroo Nihalani. P. Madhavan, and Stephanie Shattuck-Hafnagel.

Author : Jean Mark Gawron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315527314

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Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation by Jean Mark Gawron Pdf

First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic framework in which to undertake lexical description and a lexical semantic analogue to the classical syntactic distinction between subcategorized for complement and adjunct. This apparatus for lexical description is expanded in the second chapter. A theory of the semantics of nuclear terms along with a proposed implementation is presented in chapter three. The fourth chapter argues that a number of regular, semantically governed valence alternations could be captured in frame representations that give rise to various kinds of realisation options. The final chapter examines interaction of these phenomena with a general account of prediction or control along with the general framework of lexical representation.

Author : April McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139425162

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Lexical Phonology and the History of English by April McMahon Pdf

This book has two main goals: the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alternative to current non-derivational models and the rehabilitation of historical evidence as a focus of phonological theory. Although Lexical Phonology includes several constraints such as the Derived Environment Condition and Structure Preservation, intended to reduce abstractness, previous versions have not typically exploited these fully. The model of Lexical Phonology presented here imposes the Derived Environment Condition strictly; introduces a new constraint on the shape of underlying representations; excludes underspecification; and suggests an integration of Lexical Phonology with Articulatory Phonology.

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier,Evelyn Viegas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521444101

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Computational Lexical Semantics by Patrick Saint-Dizier,Evelyn Viegas Pdf

Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, and computer algorithms and architecture. Research programs whose goal is the definition of large lexicons are asking what the appropriate representation structure is for different facets of lexical information. Among these facets, semantic information is probably the most complex and the least explored. Computational Lexical Semantics is one of the first volumes to provide models for the creation of various kinds of computerized lexicons for the automatic treatment of natural language, with applications to machine translation, automatic indexing, and database front-ends, knowledge extraction, among other things. It focuses on semantic issues, as seen by linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists. Besides describing academic research, it also covers ongoing industrial projects.

Author : Roberto R. Heredia,Anna B. Cieślicka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107145610

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Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution by Roberto R. Heredia,Anna B. Cieślicka Pdf

Sets out state-of-the-art methodological and theoretical advancements to shed light on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information.

Author : Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110859928

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Levels of representation in the lexicon and in the syntax by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432442

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Word Knowledge and Word Usage by Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

Author : Marc Marschark,Harry Knoors
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190054052

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The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition by Marc Marschark,Harry Knoors Pdf

In recent years, the intersection of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience with regard to deaf individuals has received increasing attention from a variety of academic and educational audiences. Both research and pedagogy have addressed questions about whether deaf children learn in the same ways that hearing children learn, how signed languages and spoken languages might affect different aspects of cognition and cognitive development, and the ways in which hearing loss influences how the brain processes and retains information. There are now a number of preliminary answers to these questions, but there has been no single forum in which research into learning and cognition is brought together. The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition aims to provide this shared forum, focusing exclusively on learning, cognition, and cognitive development from theoretical, psychological, biological, linguistic, social-emotional, and educational perspectives. Each chapter includes state-of-the-art research conducted and reviewed by international experts in the area. Drawing this research together, this volume allows for a synergy of ideas that possesses the potential to move research, theory, and practice forward.

Author : Karuvannur Puthanveettil Mohanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015010767732

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Lexical Phonology by Karuvannur Puthanveettil Mohanan Pdf

This thesis develops the model of Lexical Phonology, in which a subset of phonological rules applies in the lexicon as part of the word formation component. Phonological rules apply after every morphological operation, to the output of which morphological operations may apply once again. The lexicon consists of ordered lexical strata which function as the domains of application Of these phonological and morphological rules. This model eliminates the need for the use of distinct boundary symbols by allowing phonological rules to have direct access to morphological information, and imposes severe restrictions on the class of possible grammars. The model of Lexical Phonology yields three levels of phonological representation, namely, the underlying, the lexical, and the phonetic. The lexical level of representation is the output of the lexical rule applications, which is also the input to lexical insertion. it is shown that several interesting formal and psychological properties converge on this level. Pauses are assigned to lexical representations after lexical insertion, and therefore, lexical rule applications are unaffected by pauses, while post lexical rule applications are blocked by intervening pauses. Speakers' judgments on the 'sameness' and 'distinctness' of speech sounds are based on lexical representations. Secret code languages, such as Pig Latin and the Alb language, take the lexical representation as the input, and so do speech errors which permute phonological segments. It is suggested that the lexical level may also have interesting consequences for theories of speech acquisition, speech recognition, and speech production.

Author : Gonia Jarema,Gary Libben
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080548692

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The Mental Lexicon by Gonia Jarema,Gary Libben Pdf

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.