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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System [PDF]
This paper explores the nature of interlanguage (IL) as a developing system with a focus on the abstract lexical structure underlying IL construction. The developing system of IL is assumed to be ‘composite’ in that in second language acquisition (SLA ...
Wei, Longxing
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The mental lexicon: Results of some word association experiments [PDF]
There are numerous hypotheses concerning the structure, size, and strategies of adults’ mental lexicon. This is the first time, however, that children’s mental vocabularies are analysed using the technique of free word associations (with the ...
Gósy, Mária, Kovács, Magdolna
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Mapping the mental lexicon of EFL learners
The present paper explores the lexical profiles of monolingual and bilingual learners acquiring English as a second and third language, respectively. Those profiles allow to get insights into learners’ lexical access and lexical organization in the new ...
Maria Pilar Agustín Llach
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Zum Status eines mentalen Lexikons bei einem bilingualen Sprecher
On status of mental lexicon of bilingual people. Bilingual people have learnt the second language in a directed way, in institutionalised conditions, achieving linguistic and communicative competence close to competences of the first language, in ...
Iwona Legutko-Marszalek
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Struktur und Organisation des mentalen Lexikons in Kontext psychologischer Gedächtnistheorien
The article presents the concept of mental lexicon's structure in context of memory theory. Mental lexicon has been defined as the part of long-term memory, where words of a particular language are gathered together with all the information concerning ...
Iwona Legutko-Marszałek
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Ability of reconstructing hierarchical semantic structures by blind and sighted language users [PDF]
The ability to reconstruct hierarchical semantic structures by blind and sighted average language users. The present paper concerns the hierarchically organised semantic structure of the mental lexicon.
Mikołajczak-Matyja, Nawoja
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New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon [PDF]
The field of cognitive aging has seen considerable advances in describing the linguistic and semantic changes that happen during the adult life span to uncover the structure of the mental lexicon (i.e., the mental repository of lexical and conceptual ...
Aging Lexicon Consortium, . +23 more
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Things, qualities, actions, relations, transformations, spatial and temporal references, all that, even mind properties, are matter for thought through words.
José Morais, São Luís Castro
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More than a signboard: the name of a store in the speaker’s mental lexicon
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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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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