Lexis, Lexical Competence and Lexical Knowledge: A Review

Competence in lexical semantics

We investigate from the competence standpoint two recent models of lexical semantics, algebraic conceptual representations and continuous vector models. Characterizing what it means for a speaker to be competent in lexical semantics remains perhaps the most significant stumbling block in reconciling the two main threads of semantics, Chomsky’s cognitivism and Montague’s formalism. As Partee (19...

Lexis meets meter: attraction of lexical units in Russian verse

The presented work deals with the quantitative parameters of the statistically calculated attraction of words to a number of meters in Russian poetry. This attraction tendency can be detected by means of Fisher's exact test. At the level of large corpora, where the meters are not differentiated by the number of steps, we failed to detect any semantic causes of the attraction. As for the prosodi...

Documenting lexical knowledge

Lexical Knowledge Bases

A lexical knowledge base is a repository of computational information about concepts intended to be generally useful in many application areas including computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and information science. It contains information derived from machine-readable dictionaries, the full text of reference books, the results of statistical analyses of text usages, and data manu...

Lexical and sub - lexical knowledge influences the encoding , storage , and articulation of nonwords Short title : Lexical knowledge and nonwords

Nonword repetition (NWR) has been used extensively in the study of child language. Although lexical and sub-lexical knowledge is known to influence NWR performance, there has been little examination of the NWR processes (e.g., encoding, storage, articulation) that may be affected by lexical and sub-lexical knowledge. We administered 2and 3-syllable spoken nonword recognition and nonword repetit...