Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved. Comparatively little investigated similar issues for functional affixes. In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes not representational units par with roots. This view is in stark contrast to claims linguistic...

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...

The c o n c e p t o f ' r e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f k n o w l e d g e ' seems l u c i d e n o u g h when talking about memories of sentences, numbers,or even faces, for one can imagine how to formulate these in terms of propositions, frames, or semantic networks. But it is much harder to do this for feelings, insights and understandings, with all the attitudes, dispositions, and 'ways of se...

We report a patient with progressive left hemisphere atrophy who presented a lexical retrieval deficit more pronounced in naming non-living items than in naming living items. Word frequency and familiarity strongly influenced the performance, but the dissociation persisted when the items were controlled for these factors. In addition, the prevalent deficit for non-living items in respect to liv...

According to the dominant view in cognitive science, language processing requires perceptual simulation of symbols. Various experiments have shown that words that share a perceptual relationship are processed faster. We have proposed an alternative view in which perceptual cues are encoded in language. However, experiments supporting perceptual simulation or language statistics have focused on ...

Over the past couple of decades, it has been repeatedly investigated whether open-class items are processed in a different way from closed-class items. Most studies, however, have been bedeviled by difficulties in controlling all relevant distinctions between openand closed-class items. For example, whereas openclass items have a relatively low frequency of occurrence, closedclass words have a ...

Acquiring vocabulary has always been recognized as a significant and challenging part of language learning process. In this study, the researcher examined the extent to which form recall of target lexical items by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) is affected by a) repetition and b) by the type of target item; single words versus collocations. The treatment consisted of non-commun...