Polylogues on the mental lexicon an exploration of fundamental issues and directions edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema, Victor Kuperman

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Libben, Gary.

Jarema, Gonia.

Kuperman, Victor, (Professor of linguistics)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins [2021]

Summary:

"From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and debates for established researchers, students, and readers interested in language and cognition. The first chapter examines how the mental lexicon itself can be seen as a polylogue. In the following six chapters, authors tackle the fundamental questions concerning future research on lexical representation and processing in an interactive structure that presents new perspectives and captures the excitement of the field. The themes include the value of cross-linguistic megastudies, the nature of meaning, how to capture truly natural language, what can be learned from lexical acquisition, the advantages of a functionalist perspective, and the role of schemas in understanding morphology and the lexicon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The mental lexicon as polylogue

Chapter 2. Meta-megastudies

Chapter 3. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

Chapter 4. Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon

Chapter 5. Hebrew adjective lexicons in developmental perspective

Chapter 6. Functionalism in the lexicon

Chapter 7. Morphological schemas

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027259615

9027259615

OCLC:

1268121830