The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (Gollan, Forster, & Frost, 1997). Two groups of Persian-speaking English language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in Persian-English and English-Persian directions with...

Event types (ET) have been widely addressed in linguistic literature, but few studies have dealt with the questions of how they are represented, retrieved and processed in the mental lexicon. We report two experiments in which ET categories were found to give rise to semantic priming effects, both with word and picture stimuli. These effects are argued to provide empirical correlates for ET cat...

Abstract Are the cognitive units in mental lexicon of Bantu speakers words or morphemes? The very small experimental literature addressing this question suggests that answer is morphemes, but a closer look at results shows premature. A novel theory lexicon, Discriminative Lexicon, which incorporates word-based view and computationally implemented Linear Learner (LDL) put to test with data set 1...

This investigation addressed the questions at what rate and how an elderly Japanese woman, AA, lost kanji nouns between the ages of 83 years and 93 years. Results from a kanji naming task given twice with a 10-year interval showed that (1) on average, the size of AA's mental lexicon of kanji shrank at a rate of approximately 1% per year and (2) while ease of acquisition had the highest correlat...

Our internal repository of words, often known as the mental lexicon, has primarily been modelled by psychologists as some kind of network. One way to probe its organisation and access mechanisms is by means of word association techniques, which have rarely been applied on Chinese. This paper reports on the design and implementation of a pilot word association test on native Hong Kong Cantonese ...

In this work we present psycholinguistically motivated computational models for the organization and processing of Bangla morphologically complex words in the mental lexicon. Our goal is to identify whether morphologically complex words are stored as a whole or are they organized along the morphological line. For this, we have conducted a series of psycholinguistic experiments to build up hypot...

Whole Word Morphologizer is a small computer implementation of word-based morphology. The program automatically identifies morphological relations in a small word-based lexicon, literally learning its morphology, and uses the knowledge it acquires to generate new words. It is based on a model of the mental lexicon in which all entries are whole, entire, fully fledged words and relies solely on ...