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The Mental Lexicon Features of the Hakka-Mandarin Dialect Bilingual
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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Phonological category quality in the mental lexicon of child and adult learners [PDF]
, 2016 • Aims and Objectives: The aim was to identify which criteria children used to decide on the category membership of native and non-native vowels, and to get insight into the organization of phonological representations in the bilingual mind ...
Simon, Ellen, Sjerps, Matthias
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More than a signboard: the name of a store in the speaker’s mental lexicon
Мова: класичне, модерне, постмодерне, 2022 Background. Forming a system of spatial, social and cultural landmarks, each speaker consciously/unconsciously records proper names which seem important.
Olena Kadochnikova
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Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015 The aim of our study was to examine the relationship between access to the mental lexicon, working memory and knowledge of English (L2) vocabulary. Analyses were undertaken amongst monolingual speakers of Polish (26 with dyslexia, 24 without) who studied
Marta Łockiewicz, Martyna Jaskulska
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Word-formation in second language acquisition [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the role of word-formation processes in the acquisition of a second-language lexicon and the relevant concepts from second language acquisition theory, among them the ‘word family’.
Cornelia Tschichold
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, 2021 The term Mental Lexicon, sometimes seen as an online version of a dictionary, is often taken to refer to the part of our language system that hosts the word forms we know and their corresponding meanings. Unlike a dictionary, words in the Mental Lexicon are not organized strictly alphabetically (although speech errors such as malapropisms, e.g ...
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Explaining Zipf's law via a mental lexicon [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2013 The Zipf's law is the major regularity of statistical linguistics that served as a prototype for rank-frequency relations and scaling laws in natural sciences. Here we show that the Zipf's law -- together with its applicability for a single text and its generalizations to high and low frequencies including hapax legomena -- can be derived from assuming
Allahverdyan, Armen E. +2 more
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Phonaesthemes: non-arbitrariness in the mental lexicon?
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2012 For the most part, the sounds of words in a language are arbitrary, given their meanings. But in fact, there are two ways in which words can be non-arbitrary.
Benjamin Bergen
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The problem of related verbs in mental lexicon [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019 Memory of a person contains various kinds of information about the word and its link to related words. To the topical (in terms of functioning) information pertains the unity, full or partial, of their phonological and morphemic set-up, similarity of ...
Anastasia Chuprina
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The construction of self in relationships: narratives and references to mental states during picture-book reading interactions between mothers and children [PDF]
, 2017 Previous studies showed that mothers vary in the way in which they discuss past experiences with their children, since they can exhibit narrative (elaborative) or paradigmatic (repetitive) styles to different extents.
Longobardi, Emiddia +3 more
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