title: The mental lexicon: evidence from lexical diffusion.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Indiana State University, Terre Haute 47809, USA. ejphill@root.indstate.edu
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010700:Phonetics; D014825:Vocabulary