Words Functioning in Lexicon

Compound words and structure in the lexicon

The structure of lexical entries and the status of lexical decomposition remain controversial. In the psycholinguistic literature, one aspect of this debate concerns the psychological reality of the morphological complexity difference between compound words (teacup) and single words (crescent). The present study investigates morphological decomposition in compound words using visual lexical dec...

Lexicon Grammar. The Representation of Compound Words

University Paris 7 I_aboratoire Documentaire ot Linguistigue 1 2, place Jussieu 1-"-75221 Paris CEDEX 05 The essenti~d feature of a lexicon-grammar is that the elementary unit of computation and storage is the simple sentence: snbleet-verb-complement(s).-this type of representation is obviously needed for verbs: limiting a verb to its shape has no meaning other than typographic, ~ir]ce a verb c...

Words, Numbers and All That: the Lexicon in Sentence Understanding

1 Cross-disciplinary Issues in Lexical Theories It is hardly a controversial statement that the acquisition and processing of language require knowledge of its words. Yet, the type and use of information encoded in a lexical entry, the relation of words to each other in the lexicon, and the relationship of the lexicon to the grammar, are complex and unsettled issues, on which researchers hold v...

Words matter: a proposed nosologic lexicon for sleep breathing.

Subjective Familiarity of Words: Analysis of the Hoosier Mental Lexicon

We conducted a statistical analysis of several subsets of words from the Hoosier Mental Lexicon in order to examine some factors underlying the subjective familiarity ratings collected by Nusbaum, Pisoni, and Davis (1984). In this analysis, we grouped words into High-FAM (average familiarity rating greater than 6 on a 7-point scale), Mid-FAM (between 4.5 and 3.5), or Low-FAM (less than 2) sets,...