Abstract This study explored the developmental trajectories of L2 Lexical-semantic networks by comparing structure lexical-semantic Chinese EFL learners at two levels English: intermediate and advanced. Analyses data from semantic fluency tasks found that with improvement language proficiency, network becomes more connected but less centralized. community revealed advanced has denser clusters t...

The focus of this article is the integration of two different perspectives on lexical semantics: Discourse Representation Theory's (DRT) inferentially motivated approach and Semantic Emphasis The-ory's (SET) lexical field based view. A new joined representation format is developed which is exemplified by analyses of German verbs. The benefits thereof are on both sides. DI/T gains basic entries ...

Semantic lexical resources play an important part in both corpus linguistics and NLP. Over the past 14 years, a large semantic lexical resource has been built at Lancaster University. Different from other major semantic lexicons in existence, such as WordNet, EuroWordNet and HowNet, etc., in which lexemes are clustered and linked via the relationship between word/MWE senses or definitions of me...

Naming pictures and matching words to pictures belonging to the same semantic category impairs performance relative to when stimuli come from different semantic categories (i.e., semantic interference). Despite similar semantic interference phenomena in both picture naming and word-picture matching tasks, the locus of interference has been attributed to different levels of the language system -...

Objectives: Lexical access is the process by which the basic conceptual, syntactical and morpho-phonological information of words are activated. Most studies of lexical access have focused on picture naming. There is hardly any previous research on other parameters of lexical access such as verbal fluency and analysis of connected speech in Persian normal participants. This study investigates t...

Over the last twenty years aspectual notions have been increasingly appealed to in structuring verbal lexical semantic representations and, concomitantly, in formulating principles of argument expression. This move has been further fueled by the significant insights that have emerged from this line of research. Yet, despite the enthusiasm for aspectual notions that their proliferation demonstra...

In this article, ambiguity and synonymy effects were examined in lexical decision, naming, and semantic categorization tasks. Whereas the typical ambiguity advantage was observed in lexical decision and naming, an ambiguity disadvantage was observed in semantic categorization. In addition, a synonymy effect (slower latencies for words with many synonyms than for words with few synonyms) was obs...

In a semantic priming paradigm, the effects of different levels of processing on N400 were assessed by changing task demands in 10 schizophrenics and 10 matched controls. In the lexical decision task subjects had to discriminate between words and nonwords, and in the physical task subjects had to discriminate between cyan and blue ink letters. A lexicality test of reaction times demonstrated th...

Lexical-semantic impairments are common consequences of acquired neurological damage. However, little is known about the benefits of existing treatment methods for this type of language impairment. Objective To evaluate current research into lexical-semantic interventions for adults with dementia, TBI or stroke. Methods The PubMed, PsycInfo and SCOPUS databases were searched for studies rel...

Picture-word interference studies typically show that semantically related distractor words embedded within a picture slow picture-naming responses, relative to unrelated ones. This semantic interference effect is commonly interpreted as arising from the competition of lexical-semantic (e.g., Schriefers, Meyer, & Levelt, 1990) or lexical-phonological (e.g., Starreveld & La Heij, 1996) codes. Th...