Using Dictionaries to Study the Mental Lexicon  

Oleh:

Anshen, Frank ; Aronoff, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 68 no. 1-2 (1999), page 16-26.
Topik: mental lexicon; dictionary; Oxford English Dictionary; computational linguistics; morphological productivity
Fulltext: 68_01-02_Anshen.pdf (60.77KB)

Isi artikel

The notion of a mental lexicon has its historical roots in practical reference dictionaries. The distributional analysis of dictionaries provides one means of investigating the structure of the mental lexicon. We review our earlier work with dictionaries, based on a three-way horserace model of lexical access and production, and then present the most recent results of our ongoing analysis of the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition on CD-ROM, which traces changes in productivity over time of the English suffixes -ment and -ity, both of which originate in French borrowings. Our results lead us to question the validity of automatic analogy from a set of existing words as the driving force behind morphological productivity.

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