An alternative view of the mental lexicon

An alternative view of the mental lexicon.

An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on...

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The Limits of Speed: An Alternative View

A new method for understanding the speed limits of matter is presented. This method is based on the hypothesis that states that matter is vibrations of superstrings. The method uses the relativistic equations of the Special Relativity to, speculatively, obtain new relativistic equations that govern the vibrating motion of the superstring. Without the need of using the concept of the imaginary m...

An alternative view of the deconvolution problem

The deconvolution kernel density estimator is a popular technique for solving the deconvolution problem, where the goal is to estimate a density from a sample of contaminated observations. Although this estimator is optimal, it suffers from two major drawbacks: it converges at very slow rates (inherent to the deconvolution problem) and can only be calculated when the density of the errors is co...

Meaning and the Mental Lexicon

This paper presents a network model of the mental lexicon and its formation. Models of word meaning typically postulate a network of nodes wi th connection strengths, or distances, that reflect semantic similarity, but seldom explain how the network is formed or how it could be represented in the brain. The model presented here is an attempt to address these questions. The network organizes sem...