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TITLE:
On the Meaning of Words and Dinosaur Bones: Lexical Knowledge Without
a Lexicon

SOURCE:
Cognitive Science 33 (2009) 1–36

ABSTRACT:
Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language
research between rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this
distinction is now blurred in many theories.......(OMITTED) I review a
set of studies whose results indicate that event knowledge plays a
significant role in early stages of sentence processing and structural
analysis. This poses a conundrum for traditional views of the lexicon.
Either the lexicon must be expanded to include factors that do not
plausibly seem to belong there; or else virtually all information
about word meaning is removed, leaving the lexicon impoverished. I
suggest a third alternative, which provides a way to account for
lexical knowledge without a mental lexicon.