Identifying the phonological backbone in the mental lexicon. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Previous studies used techniques from network science to identify individual nodes and a set of nodes that were "important" in a network of phonological word-forms from English.
Michael S Vitevitch, Mary Sale
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Modeling the Mental Lexicon as Part of Long-Term and Working Memory and Simulating Lexical Access in a Naming Task Including Semantic and Phonological Cues [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 BackgroundTo produce and understand words, humans access the mental lexicon. From a functional perspective, the long-term memory component of the mental lexicon is comprised of three levels: the concept level, the lemma level, and the phonological level.
Catharina Marie Stille +5 more
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The Mental Lexicon Features of the Hakka-Mandarin Dialect Bilingual [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 The current study investigated the mental lexicon features of the Hakka-Mandarin dialect bilingual from two perspectives: the structural features of lexicons and the relations between lexicons.
Yao Chen, Rong Zhou
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Paradigms in the Mental Lexicon: Evidence From German
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Previous research showed that the mental lexicon is organized morphologically, but the evidence was limited to words that differ only in subphonemic detail.
Ruben van de Vijver, Dinah Baer-Henney
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Syllables and their beginnings have a special role in the mental lexicon. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance How spoken words are stored in the mind/brain is a fascinating question for our understanding of language as well as for practical applications, e.g., in clinical contexts.
Sun Y, Poeppel D.
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Navigating the Mental Lexicon: Network Structures, Lexical Search and Lexical Retrieval. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist ResThis paper examines the implications of the association patterns in our understanding of the mental lexicon. By applying the principles of graph theory to word association data, we intend to explore which measures tap better into lexical knowledge.
Agustín-Llach MP, Rubio J.
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Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks: Insights, advancements, and future challenges. [PDF]
Psychon Bull RevThe mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Over decades psychological experiments have shown that conceptual associations across multiple, interactive cognitive levels can greatly ...
Stella M +5 more
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Keywords in the mental lexicon. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2014 Network science draws from a number of fields to examine complex systems using nodes to represent individuals and connections to represent relationships between individuals to form a network. This approach has been used in several areas of Psychology to illustrate the influence that the structure of a network has on processing in that system.
Vitevitch MS, Goldstein R.
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The multiplex structure of the mental lexicon influences picture naming in people with aphasia. [PDF]
J Complex Netw, 2019 An emerging area of research in cognitive science is the utilization of networks to model the structure and processes of the mental lexicon in healthy and clinical populations, like aphasia.
Castro N, Stella M.
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Dimensions of similarity in the mental lexicon. [PDF]
Lang Cogn Neurosci, 2016 During language production planning, multiple candidate representations are implicitly activated prior to articulation. Lexical representations that are phonologically related to the target (phonological neighbors) are known to influence phonetic properties of the target word.
Fricke M, Baese-Berk MM, Goldrick M.
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