This study investigated the neural correlates of second-language lexical acquisition in terms of learning phase and word type. Ten French-speaking participants learned 80 Spanish words-40 cognates, 40 non-cognates-by means of a computer program. The learning process included the early learning phase, which comprised 5 days, and the consolidation phase, which lasted 2 weeks. After each phase, pa...

Masked priming is used in psycholinguistic studies to assess questions about lexical access and representation. We present two masked priming experiments using MEG. If the MEG signal elicited by words reflects specific aspects of lexical retrieval, then one expects to identify specific neural correlates of retrieval that are sensitive to priming. To date, the electrophysiological evidence has b...

A number of previous experiments on the role of lexical ambiguity, in Information Retrieval are reproduced on the'IR-Semcor test collection (derived from Semcor), where both queries and documents are hand-tagged ;with phrases, Part-Of-Speech and WordNet 1.5 senses. Our results indicate that a) Word Sense Disambiguation can be more beneficial to Information Retrieval than the experiments of Sand...

This paper examined the role of lexical processing in phrase structure building sentence production. We asked whether speakers exploit a cue as guide (i.e. cued word occurs earlier sentence) and retrieval facilitates memorised structure). In two experiments, participants recalled Dutch genitive sentences. some recall trials, they received that repeated one argument to-be-recalled sentence. furt...

WordNet is a large lexical database of English language, in which, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets). Each synset expresses a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by both semantic and lexical relations. WordNet is essentially used for word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, and text translation. In this paper, we propose s...