The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides international forum for research bears on the issues of representation and processing words in mind brain. We encourage both submission original reviews significant new developments understanding mental lexicon. publishes work includes, but not limited to following: Models Computational models lexical access production Experimenta...

this paper attempts to introduce the dimensions of bi/multi-lingualism as a cognitive linguis-tic phenomenon, which can be thought over in sociological, biolinguistic, cultural and psy-cholinguistic perspective. the main research question being asked as how bi/multilingualism is a cognitive phenomenon and what are the bilinguality problems and how do they repre-sents in linguistics? linguist...

the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

How does the mental lexicon, the network of learned words in our semantic memory, change in old age? To address this question, we employ a new network inference method to infer networks from verbal fluency data of a group of younger and older adults. We find that older adults produce more unique words in verbal fluency tasks than younger adults. In line with recent theorizing, this suggests a l...