Kiwi melón, Susana Sacarina, the mental lexicon and other stuff about lexical processing
Words, as central units of any human language, are studied from different perspectives of language studies. In addition to establishing theoretical definitions about what a word is or is not and how it is formed, we are interested in knowing how our Language Faculty recognizes and manipulates them s...
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Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/lingustica/article/view/4720 |
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| Sumario: | Words, as central units of any human language, are studied from different perspectives of language studies. In addition to establishing theoretical definitions about what a word is or is not and how it is formed, we are interested in knowing how our Language Faculty recognizes and manipulates them so that we can understand and produce something meaningful from them. That is, what mental processes underlie that capacity that human beings have: understand words. Why doesn't a word behave like any other noise or scribble? Is it as easy to recognize words from our language as from other unknown languages? Is there a single possible explanation for this mechanism that allows us to process words in such an apparently easy way? In this short text we propose to present some psycholinguistic phenomena around lexical processing and we reflect on the possible models that allow us to explain how we understand the words of our language. |
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