Studies to date using corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches have investigated the collocational links in both L1 L2 brain from different angles. They attempted test role collocations play mental lexicon question how data can guide us our investigations. However, there been almost no attempts explore relationship between Turkish users’ subjective judgements of use (frequency) associa...

Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition in Spanish were examined in 5 paradigms: progressive demasking, standard lexical decision, lexical decision with blocking of neighborhood density, naming, and semantic categorization. The results showed inhibitory effects of neighborhood frequency in the progressive-demasking task, in both lexical-decision tasks, as well as for low...

The role of phonological neighborhood density in lexical access was examined during nativeand nonnative language production. German-English and English-German bilinguals named pictures of German words with highand low-density neighborhoods. Results revealed that accuracy of picture naming was influenced by phonological neighborhood, with high-density neighborhoods facilitating lexical access in...

This paper proposes a novel method for learning probability models of subcategorization preference of verbs. We consider the issues of case dependencies and noun class generalization in a uniform way by employing the maximum entropy modeling method. We also propose a new model selection algorithm which starts from the most general model and gradually examines more specific models. In the experi...

In this paper, we describe TANGO as a collocational concordancer for looking up collocations. The system was designed to answer user’s query of bilingual collocational usage for nouns, verbs and adjectives. We first obtained collocations from the large monolingual British National Corpus (BNC). Subsequently, we identified collocation instances and translation counterparts in the bilingual corpu...

Appropriate use of near-synonyms in English often poses difficulty for learners. This study aims to compare and contrast the predict foresee , focusing on genres, collocations, colligations, semantic prosody which specifically characterize each synonymous verb. The consulted Corpus Contemporary American (COCA), i.e. largest corpus representing (Davies, 2020), distribution target synonyms across...

The question how prior knowledge of words affects processing of nonwords is important with respect to the study of lexical access and lexical competition. According to the Neighbourhood Activation model (Luce & Pisoni, 1998), the auditory presentation of a word or nonword yields automatic activation of all words in the mental lexicon that sound similar. Experimental results with unimpaired list...