Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical Access

1998 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Laurie Beth Feldman ◽  
Dominiek Sandra ◽  
Marcus Taft
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Access ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Lexical Representation

scholarly journals Bilingual Lexical Representation and Its Access

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Chunlei Wang ◽  
Na Li
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Access ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Phonological Structure ◽  
Original Intention

The purpose of this paper is to explore the terminology, concepts and access to bilingual lexical representation. The core problem of linguistic cognitive structure is linguistic representation which is the reflection of individual psychology on linguistic knowledge. In terms of linguistic representation, the research and experiments on the evidence of lexical representation in modern psycholinguistic period are reviewed. Psycholinguistic studies attempt to apply elucidate language theories and model systems to operate and interpret representational data. We recognize that the use of the concept of lexical representation may contribute to the search for "psychological grammar" .Moreover, we present the original intention of studying bilingual representation and three approaches of the bilingual lexical representation: lexical meaning, direct representation of reality, functional representations. Our focuses are models of lexical access, variables that influence lexical access and appraising models of lexical access. Then we represent models of lexical access, which are influenced by variety of factors, including the frequency of a word, its phonological structure, its syntactic category, its morphological structure, the presence of semantically related words, and the existence of alternative meaning of the word. It is concluded that bilingual lexical representation access is influenced by a variety of factors.

Phonology-based bilingual activation among different-script bilinguals?

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 693-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAN JIANG
Keyword(s):  
Computational Model ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Basic Mechanism ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Selective Activation ◽  
Lexical Activation ◽  
Simultaneous Activation ◽  
Multiple Languages

Multilink developed by Dijkstra et al. (2018) is a computational model of monolingual and bilingual lexical access in comprehension and production. The non-selective activation of a bilingual's two languages is handled in the model by assuming that bilinguals have an integrated lexicon and that orthographic overlap between the input and the lexical representation drives lexical activation. Hence, an orthographic unit such as the letter T may activate words from multiple languages that contain the letter, resulting in simultaneous activation of multiple languages. This basic mechanism for explaining non-selective activation is similar between Multilink and its predecessors BIA and BIA+.

Cumulative semantic interference across unrelated responses in school-age children's picture naming

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Monique CHAREST ◽  
Tieghan BAIRD
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Linear Increase ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
School Age ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
School Aged Children

Abstract Naming semantically related images results in progressively slower responses as more images are named. There is considerable documentation in adults of this phenomenon, known as cumulative semantic interference. Few studies have focused on this phenomenon in children. The present research investigated cumulative semantic interference effects in school-aged children. In Study 1, children named a series of contiguous, semantically related pictures. The results revealed no cumulative interference effects. Study 2 utilized an approach more closely aligned with adult methods, incorporating intervening, unrelated items intermixed with semantically related items within a continuous list. Study 2 showed a linear increase in reaction time as a function of ordinal position within semantic sets. These findings demonstrate cumulative semantic interference effects in young, school-aged children that are consistent with experience-driven changes in the connections that underlie lexical access. They invite further investigation of how children's lexical representation and processing are shaped by speaking experiences.

Electrifying the lexical decision

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Azevedo ◽  
Ruth Ann Atchley ◽  
Eva Kehayia
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Lexical Status ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Four Blocks

The current research utilizes lexical decision within an oddball ERP paradigm to study early lexical processing. Nineteen undergraduate students completed four blocks of the oddball lexical decision task (Nonword targets among Words, Word targets among Nonwords, Word targets among Pseudowords, and Pseudoword targets among Words). We observed a reliable P3 ERP component in conditions where the distinction between rare and frequent trials could be made solely based on lexical status (Words among Nonwords and Nonwords among Words). We saw a reliable P3 to rare words among frequent pseudowords, but no P3 was observed when participants were asked to detect pseudowords in the context of frequent word stimuli. We argue that this observed modulation of the P3 results is consistent with psycholinguistic literature that suggests that two criteria are available during lexical access when performing a lexicality judgement, a non-lexical criterion that relies on global activation at the word level and a lexical criterion that relies on activation of a lexical representation (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001; Grainger & Jacobs, 1996).

Morphological structure governs the process of accessing grammatical gender in the course of production

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Dank ◽  
Avital Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Access ◽  
Congruency Effect ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Naming Latency ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Gender Information ◽  
Bare Nouns ◽  
Organizational Principles ◽  
Gender Congruency Effect ◽  
Syntactic Context

The present study investigated the process of accessing gender information when producing inanimate nouns in Hebrew. The Picture Word Interference paradigm was used to manipulate gender congruency between target pictures and spoken distractors. Naming latency and accuracy were measured. The gender congruency effect has been tested in various Indo-European languages, with mixed results. It seems to depend on both language-specific attributes and the syntactic context of the utterance. Speakers’ insensitivity to gender congruency was observed at 3 SOAs (Experiment 1a–1c). Neither the production of bare nouns (Experiments 1 & 3) nor gender-marked NPs (Experiment 2) elicited the effect. Nevertheless, the same procedure and targets revealed a semantic effect. The present findings in Hebrew deviate from previous results obtained with Indo-European languages. The results are discussed in connection with Hebrew’s nonconcatenative morphological features and the way linguistic characteristics govern the organizational principles of the mental lexicon and lexical access.

Semantic Effects in Morphological Priming: The Case of Hebrew Stems

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Farhy ◽  
João Veríssimo
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Morphological Priming ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Semantic Properties ◽  
Prime Target ◽  
Morphological Representation

To what extent is morphological representation in different languages dependent on semantic information? Unlike Indo-European languages, the Semitic mental lexicon has been argued to be purely “morphologically driven”, with complex stems represented in a decomposed format (root + vowel pattern) irrespectively of their semantic properties. We have examined this claim by comparing cross-modal root-priming effects elicited by Hebrew verbs of a productive, open-ended class (Piel) and verbs of a closed-class (Paal). Morphological priming effects were obtained for both verb types, but prime-target semantic relatedness interacted with class, and only modulated responses following Paal, but not Piel primes. We explain these results by postulating different types of morpho-lexical representation for the different classes: structured stems, in the case of Piel, and whole-stems (which lack internal morphological structure), in the case of Paal. We conclude that semantic effects in morphological priming are also obtained in Semitic languages, but they are crucially dependent on type of morpho-lexical representation.

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