A central question in spoken word recognition research is whether words are recognized relationally, in the context of other words in the mental lexicon [1, 2]. The current research evaluated metrics for measuring the influence of the mental lexicon on visually perceived (lipread) spoken word recognition. Lexical competition (the extent to which perceptually similar words influence recognition ...

A s you read these words, a complex sequence of processes are at work in your brain, identifying visual patterns (letters) that are mapped onto familiar units (words), the meanings of which are combined to allow comprehension. In this description, a mental dictionary or lexicon linking word forms (orthography) to word meanings (semantics) plays a central and critical role in the reading process...

In this work we extend previous analyses of linguistic networks by adopting a multi-layer network framework for modelling the human mental lexicon, i.e. an abstract mental repository where words and concepts are stored together with their linguistic patterns. Across a three-layer linguistic multiplex, we model English words as nodes and connect them according to (i) phonological similarities, (...

The present study examined the performance of pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users on easy (high frequency words from low density neighborhoods) and hard (low frequency words from high density neighborhoods) words on the monosyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (LNT) and Multi-syllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (MLNT). The easy—hard effect (the superior performance on easy words compared to hard...

Recent research on the phonological structure of the mental lexicon has almost exclusively been based on the English mental lexicon. Linguists and psychologists have been especially interested in identifying what constitutes a phonological neighborhood and how a phonological neighborhood is influenced by word frequency (cf. String edit distance is typically used as a measure of phonological sim...

Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of lexical forms into predictably structured larger words, phrases, and sentences. The declarative/procedural model posits that the lexicon/grammar distinction in language is tied to the distinction between two well-studied ...