A hallmark of the English verb lexicon is the availability of multiple argument realization options for many English verbs. Studies of the English verb lexicon have drawn attention to one facet of this phenomenon: the availability of a range of object alternations (Levin 1993)—alternate realizations of the VP-internal arguments of apparently triadic verbs. One of the best-known of these alterna...

This paper discusses the relationship between pragmatic contextual information and complex word meaning in the Mandarin Chinese lexicon. It is argued that although pragmatic information serves to enrich semantically underspecified lexical entries, such information has no access to the internal constituents of lexical items once they have entered the lexicon of the hearer. Using two types of Man...

The lex ica1 representation of Serbo-Croatian nouns was investigated in a lexical decision task" Because Serbo-Croatian nouns are declined, a noun may appear in one of several grammatical cases distinguished by the inflectional morpheme affixed to the base form. The grammatical cases occur with different frequencies although some are visually and phonetically identical. When the frequencies of ...

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The authors compared fifth-, seventh-, and tenth-graders, and college undergraduates’ cognitive word knowledge of the cognates of think and know within a theoretical framework focused on hierarchical levels of meaning. Cognitive words form a category within the internal state lexicon and may be central to accessing, monitoring, and transforming our internal states, all of which seem to be proce...

The focus of this paper lies on IE roots which, though considered primary in the daughter languages, show evidence to suggest that their morphological structure as well as their meaning are not primary but derived . These are the so-called extended roots . The author offers some observations on the nature of the last radical in verbal roots ending in *°bh in postconsonantal position (consonanta...

This investigation sought to determine the role of cognitive word knowledge in metacognitive development. Subjects were fifth graders, seventh graders, tenth graders, and college undergraduates. Each subject completed a Likert scale self-report qWstiomuNire that measured the frequency of their metacognitive strategy use and a multiple-choice test that measured their cognitive word knowledge. Ac...

This paper presents an object-oriented model for machine translation based on Universal Grammar, the Universal Lexicon and language-specific grammars and the lexicons, and demonstrates the internal structures of these linguistic constructs by following a step-by-step process of English to Japanese translation. It elucidates what elements are required in the Universal Lexicon and the lexicons of...