Exploring the mental lexicon

Acha, Joana; Carreiras, Manuel

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“…Один из ключевых вопросов, касающихся ранних этапов чтения, заключается в том, как идет процесс распознавания букв в слове. Несмотря на то что в алфавитных системах письменности слово распознается через входящие в его состав буквы [Acha, Carreiras, 2014;Grainger, 2016], идентификация букв является наименее изученным аспектом восприятия письменной речи [Finkbeiner, Coltheart, 2009] 2 .…”

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The Gaze of Schroedinger’s Cat: Eye-Tracking in Psycholinguistics

Chernigovskaya¹,

Alexeeva²,

Dubasava³

et al. 2018

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The book addresses the study of reading mechanisms and visual perception using the method of eye-tracking. The authors conduct their research in the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies of Saint Petersburg State University that was the first in Russia to utilize eye-tracking in experimental studies of language more than 15 years ago. Psycholinguistic experiments aimed at analyzing reading in Russian are described; a systematic description of factors which influence reading process at different stages and linguistic levels from a single letter to a coherent text is provided. The mechanisms of separate graphemes recognition, activation and competition processes in word recognition, contextual integration processes, syntactic parsing, and anaphora resolution in eye-tracking experiments are described. The influence of the text type on its processing is demonstrated, the advantages and disadvantages of the infographics compared to verbal text are described, the relationship between visual perception of images and their verbalization is discussed. The significant role of context is highlighted: on the one hand, it helps the reader to anticipate new information, and on the other hand, it enables different multiple interpretations of a sentence or text. In the book a virtual assistant — Schroedinger’s cat — is used as a model of a subject who processes and transmits information. The book will appeal to linguists and cognitive psychologists who use eye-tracking in their research, as well as for the wide range of those who are interested in objective methods of studying language processing and human behavior.

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The Gaze of Schroedinger’s Cat: Eye-Tracking in Psycholinguistics

Chernigovskaya¹,

Alexeeva²,

Dubasava³

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“…At a bare minimum, foreign vocabulary knowledge entails learning to recognize or produce the written or spoken forms of words when prompted (González-Fernández & Schmitt, 2020). The sub-lexical, lexical-semantic, and morphological information (among others) about vocabulary are theorized to lie in the so-called mental lexicon, the brain's storage for known words (Acha & Carreiras, 2014;Aitchison, 2012;Dijkstra, 2012). There are two fundamental representations-or neural traces-within the mental lexicon.…”

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Words in the CLOUD: How orthographic similarity and bilingual experience facilitate foreign vocabulary learning

Aguasvivas¹,

Testolin²,

Zorzi³

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Learning a foreign language as an adult is a rewarding but challenging endeavor that entails accruing a massive vocabulary. The literature independently highlights that orthographic similarity and bilingual experience could facilitate foreign vocabulary acquisition. Here, we explored the combined effects of orthographic similarity and bilingual experience on foreign vocabulary learning using behavioral and computational approaches. Experiment 1 compared Spanish monolingual, Spanish-English, and Spanish-Basque bilingual participants when learning an artificial vocabulary with varying orthographic similarity to Spanish. The results indicated that similar words were easier to recognize and produce than dissimilar words, and both bilingual groups outperformed the monolingual group in learning the vocabulary, irrespective of orthographic similarity. In Experiment 2, we developed a neural network model that implemented a unified, distributed, and dynamic view of the orthographic lexicon to explain how these effects could emerge from exposure to bilingual input. We simulated adults’ orthographic lexicons by pre-training this architecture on monolingual and bilingual input. We then tested the monolingual and bilingual versions’ capacity to learn the novel words used in the behavioral task. The simulations reproduced the orthographic similarity effects and showed an overall advantage of experience with bilingual input, as observed in the behavioral results. The present study unifies the seemingly disparate effects of orthographic similarity and bilingual experience under a common computational framework, whereby distributed representations of orthographic word forms are stored in a unified space and dynamically modified by learning experiences.

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Reducing Learners’ Cognitive Load and Emotional Challenges Created by Lexis: The Andragogical Approach to Enhance Adult Learners’ Mental Lexicon

Deveci

Saleem

2022

Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom

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Exploring the mental lexicon

Cited by 7 publications

References 114 publications

The Gaze of Schroedinger’s Cat: Eye-Tracking in Psycholinguistics

The Gaze of Schroedinger’s Cat: Eye-Tracking in Psycholinguistics

Words in the CLOUD: How orthographic similarity and bilingual experience facilitate foreign vocabulary learning

Reducing Learners’ Cognitive Load and Emotional Challenges Created by Lexis: The Andragogical Approach to Enhance Adult Learners’ Mental Lexicon

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