The Mental Lexicon

The Mental Lexicon

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Procedure

Kazanina 2006,

University of Ottawa<<

How is the Mental lexicon organised?

List Network

Kazanina 2006,

University of Ottawa

A word is a bundle of features A word is a part of a network.

Hierarchical Network (trees)

From Elman 2004

Sets and subsets

From Elman 2004<<

Spreading Activation

Lexical-semantic (Lemma) level

Phonological (lexeme) level

Conceptual level

Word structure

Cross-Position Priming Effects on Visual Word Recognition (Perea & Lupker 2003)

• Uhser - USHER (internal condition)

• Ushre – USHER (final condition)

• Non words were also tested

p<0.001

p<0.7p<0.001

Cross-Model Priming

• Auditory prime, visual target

Kazanina 2006,

University of Ottawa

Phonological priming (Marslen-Wilson & Zwiserlood 1985)

Kazanina 2006,

University of Ottawa

Phonological priming (Marslen-Wilson & Zwiserlood 1985)

Kazanina 2006,

University of Ottawa

Word initial cohort model

Lindfield et al. (1999)

Figure 1. Cumulative percentage of words correctly identified as word-onset durations were increased in 50-ms increments for the three presentation conditions (onset plus prosody, onset plus duration, onset only). Note that correct prosody also includes correct word length. Error bars represent one standard error of the mean.