Mental Lexicon

[NA...@auc.eg]

I am a graduate student in the American University in Cairo.
I am working on a thesis on Vocabulary Acquisition: Lexical Storage.
I am investigating how L2 learners encode vocabulary items, i.e.,
whether acoustic and/or semantic clustering takes place in the learners'
mental lexicon, are they grouped according to content or phonological
form. I would appreciate information and references related to this topic
i.e., L2 learners mental lexicon, the organization of L2 learners mental
lexicon, how L2 learners encode lexics, how lexical errors can help determine
what the L2 mental dictionary looks like.
Please send replies directly to Nagwa@egaucacs.
Thanks. Nagwa Kassabgy - Graduate student - The American University in Cairo

[adc...@staff.tc.umn.edu]

Reagard lexical storage, check with Roann Altman, as she has
done a study of her learning of Hebrew vocabulary:

alt...@bgunve.bgu.ac.il

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[LCI...@arizvms.bitnet]

A lot of research has been conducted in psychology. But none in the areas of
second language acquisition, or non that I know of. In any case, here are a
few references:
1. A book entitled NEW APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE MECHANISMS has an article by
Kenneth Forster entitled "Accessing the Mental Lexicon".
2. A book entitled AN INVITATION TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE: LANGUAGE VOL.1 has an
article by Kenneth Forster again entitled "Lexical Processing"
3. Forster, K. (1981). Priming and the effects of sentence and lexical
contexts on naming time: Evidence for autonomous lexical processing.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 33, 465-495.
4. HOLCOMB, P.J. (1988) Automatice and attential processing: An event-related
brain potential analysis of semantic processing. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE, 35,
66-85.
5. Van Patten & Kutas (1990) Interactions between sentence context and word
frequency in event-related brain potentials. MEMORY AND COGNITION, 18,
380-393.
6. Coltheart, M. (1978) Lexical access in simple reading tasks. In G.
Underwood (Ed.) STRATEGIES OF INFORMATION PROCESSING. London: Academic Press.
7. Coltheart and al. (1977) Access to the internal lexicon. In. S. Dornic
(Ed.), ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE VI. LondonL Academic Press.
Seidenberg, M.S. (1985) Constraining models of word recognition. COGNITION,
20, 169-190.
8. RUMELHART,& AL. (1986) Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in
the Microsctructures of Cognition. volume 1: Foundations. Bradford. MIT
Press.
9. Morton, J. (1970) A functional model of human memory. In D.A. Norman (Ed),
MODELS OF HUMAN MEMORY, NY: Academic Press.
10. Norris, D. (1986) Word REcognition: Context effects without priming.
COGNITION, 22, 93-136.
11. Paap, K.R. et al. (1982) An activation verification model for letter and
word recognition: The Word superiority effect. PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 89,
573-594.

An many more references... But I'm sure you'access the others... You may want
to contact KFORSTER@ARIZVMS Kenneth Forster was one of my professors when I
took his class in psycholinguistics at the University of ARizona. He is a
specialist in LEXICAL ACCESS. Good luck! Lydie!
E-mail: LCINKO@ARIZVMS Lydie Meunier-Cinko

[ENTA...@cphkvx.bitnet]

Re SLA, there's Meara, P. and Ingle, S. 1986. 'The formal representation of
words in an L2 speaker's lexicon.' Second Language Research, 2, 2:160-171.

Re L1 research, Marslen-Wilson, William D. 1987. 'Functional parallelism in
spoken word-recognition.' Cognition, 25: 71-102. (This provides a useful
summation of the Cohort model that Marslen-Wilson has developed in order
to explain the results of over a decade of his work re access to the
mental lexicon. I would also recommend a search for later studies by
Marslen-Wilson).

I hope these are of some use.

Best wishes

Steve Tauroza

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