This paper examines the functioning of some new Anglicisms in bilingual mental lexicon which consists Russian as L1 and English L2, by means association experiment. English-based neologisms today have a number interesting features: they exist abundance, are used extensively ubiquitously, many these words not subject to single spelling standard. The (bilingual) is key exploring semantic structur...

This article analyzes the possibility of making dictionaries that take into consideration mental lexicon, i.e. words do not work in isolation; instead, they are dynamic constructs activated, stored, processed and retrieved gradually. For that, it proposes several general lexicographical methodological ideas illustrates them referring to their implementation Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa: (a) dict...

This paper draws together ideas published in Allan (1976; 1980; 1981; 2000; 2001) which relate to a potential variety of senses for a given lexeme when it is listed in the lexicon (as a listeme), each sense being appropriate to a particular set of contexts of use. The problem for the lexicographer (if this is the correct term for someone modelling the mental lexicon) is how to tag the various s...

Does the organization of the mental lexicon reflect the combination of abstract underlying morphemic units or the concatenation of word-level phonological units? We address these fundamental issues in Arabic, a Semitic language where every surface form is potentially analyzable into abstract morphemic units - the word pattern and the root - and where this view contrasts with stem-based approach...

The precise structure of speech sound representations is still a matter of debate. In the present neurobiological study, we compared predictions about differential sensitivity to speech contrasts between models that assume full specification of all phonological information in the mental lexicon with those assuming sparse representations (only contrastive or otherwise not predictable information...

The representation of phonological features in the mental lexicon has been examined using eventrelated brain responses, such as mismatch negativeity (MMN; an automatic auditory change detection response in the brain) or the P350 component (a correlate of lexical activation). This presentation will summarize some MMN studies that demonstrate support for (i) models proposing abstract underspecifi...

the present study endeavors to unravel the enigma of the psycholinguistic mechanisms underpinning bilingual mental lexicon by analyzing the issue of l1 lexicalization as a construct epitomizing an overarching framework. it involves 78 juniors at the islamic azad university, roudehen branch. the study inspects the impact of the interventionist/noninterventionist treatments on both sets of lexica...