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

• TeilnehmendeR: Jarema, Gonia.; Libben, Gary.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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.