The mental lexicon core perspectives (Elsevier, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Introduction: Matters of Definition and Core Perspectives; Chapter 2 Putting Humpty Together Again: Synthetic Approaches to Nonlinear Variable Effects Underlying Lexical Access; Chapter 3 Visual Word Recognition: Problems and Issues; Chapter 4 Language: Between Words and Grammar; Chapter 5 Storage and Computation in the Mental Lexicon; Chapter 6 Generative Morphology as Psycholinguistics; Chapter 7 Origins of Cross-Language Differences in Word Recognition; Chapter 8 Productivity in Word Formation
Reflects a consensus that the investigation of words in the mind offers a unique opportunity to understand both human language ability and general human cognition. Brings together key perspectives on the fundamental nature of the representation and processing of words in the mind.This thematic volume covers a wide range of views on the fundamental nature of representation and processing of words in the mind and a range of views on the investigative techniques that are most likely to reveal that nature. *Provides an overview of issues and developments in t