The mental lexicon: evidence from lexical diffusion.
The purpose of this paper is to bring together evidence from studies on the lexical diffusion of various sound changes to support the following characteristics of the mental lexicon: (a) it must be connectionist rather than generative; (b) it must include information about grammatical category; (c) it must provide information on lexical frequency or entrenchment; and (d) entries must contain phonetic detail. Overall, lexical diffusion studies support a fully specified, connectionist model of the lexicon.
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Indiana State University, Terre Haute 47809, USA. ejphill@root.indstate.edu
D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010700:Phonetics; D014825:Vocabulary