Reading and the Mental Lexicon

This text outlines the major models of lexical processing that have been put forward in the literature, and how they explain the basic empirical findings that have been reported.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction. Models of Lexical Access. Finding an Appropriate Task. Basic Lexical Decision Findings. Part II: Evaluation of Models. Explaining the Frequency Effect. Explaining the Lexical Status Effect. Explaining the Nonword Legality Effect. Explaining the Word Similarity Effect. Explaining Repetition Priming Effect. Explaining the Degradation Effect. Overview of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Models. Is the Lexical Task Appropriate? Part III: Semantic and Syntactic Influences in Lexical Processing. Effects of Semantic Characteristics of Isolated Words. Effects of Word Class. Beyond the Isolated Word. Tachistoscopic Recognition of Words in Context. Single Word Contexts. Sentence Contexts. Accessing Ambiguous Words. Syntactic Contexts. Conclusion. Part IV: Phonological Recoding. Homophony and Pseudohomophony. Form-priming. Articulatory Suppression. Regularity Effects. Consistency Effects. A Multiple-Levels Model. Pronouncing Nonwords. Overview. Part V: Morphographic Processing. Morphological Decomposition. Syllables. The Interactive-Activation Model Modified. Part VI: Conclusions and Future Directions. Overview. The Use of Simulations. A Distributed Connectionist Model. Processing in Languages other than English.

About the author

Marcus Taft

Summary

This text outlines the major models of lexical processing that have been put forward in the literature, and how they explain the basic empirical findings that have been reported.

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Taft, Taft Marcus
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.1993
• EAN: 9780863773358
• ISBN: 978-0-86377-335-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 300 g
• Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics