Words in the mind - AAA130198

• Title: Words in the mind
• Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9049
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil.
• Pre-requisite : AAA230043

Annotation

Last update: doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil. (17.01.2023)

The mental lexicon (or mental dictionary) is a language user’s mental storage of internalized knowledge of the properties of words. Lexical access refers to the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon, and this includes both word recognition as well as production processes. This course provides an introduction to how lexical memory works, how words are organized and how their semantic and formal knowledge is represented. The main focus will be on orthographic, phonological, and semantic aspects of words. In addition, we will discuss challenges posed by multiple languages memorized by a language user (the “bilingual/ multilingual mental lexicon”). Students will learn about various empirical techniques, which are used to investigate the organizational structure of the mental lexicon, ranging from experimental psychology to functional imaging and computer modeling. Models of speech recognition and production will be discussed. The aim of this course is to familiarize students with current issues and experimental approaches to the organization and function of the mental lexicon in first and second/foreign language users.

Literature

Last update: doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil. (17.01.2023)

Selected literature

Aitchison, J. (2012). Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon. London: John Wiley & Sons.

Bybee, J. (2000). The phonology of the lexicon: Evidence from lexical diffusion. In S. Kemmer & M. Barlow (Eds.), Usage-based models of language (pp. 65-86). California: CSLI Publications.

Charles-Luce, J., & Luce, P. A. (1990). Similarity neighbourhoods of words in young children’s lexicon. Journal of Child Language, 17(1), 205-215.

Dell, G. S. (1986). A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production. Psychologial Review, 93(3), 283-321.

Dóczi, B. (2020). An overview of conceptual models and theories of lexical representation in the mental lexicon. In S. Webb (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies (pp. 46-65). London, New York: Routledge.

Fay, D., & Cutler, A. (1977). Malapropisms and the structure of the mental lexicon. Linguistic Inquiry, 8(3), 505-520.

Levelt, W. J. M. (1999). Models of word production. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3(6), 223-232.

Luce, P. A., & Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood activation model. Ear and Hearing, 19, 1-36.

Luef, E. M. (2022). Growth algorithms in the phonological networks of second language learners. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), e26-44. doi:10.1037/xge0001248

Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Zwitserlood, P. (1989). Accessing spoken words: The importance of word onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and performance, 15, 576.

McClelland, J. L., & Elman, J. L. (1986). The TRACE model of speech perception. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1-86.

Turnbull, R., & Peperkamp, S. (2017). What governs a language’s lexicon? Determining the organizing principles of phonological neighbourhood networks. In H. Cherifi, S. Gaito, W. Quattrociocchi, & A. Sala (Eds.), Complex networks and their applications V (pp. 83-94). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Ullman, M. T. (2007). The biocognition of the mental lexicon. In M. G. Gaskell, G. T. M. Altmann, P. Bloom, A. Caramazza, & P. Levelt (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 267-288). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Vitevitch, M. S. (2012). What do foreign neighbors say about the mental lexicon? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(1), 167-172.

Weber, A., & Scharenborg, O. (2012). Models of spoken-word recognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews:  Cognitive Science, 3, 387-401.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil. (17.01.2023)

Session	Topic
1	Introduction: How do you define a “word”? History of the study of the mental lexicon
2	Words in the brain
3	Speech recognition
4	Speech production
5	Experimental approaches
6	Similarity neighborhoods
7	The bilingual lexicon
8	Integrating multiple languages
9	Growing the lexicon in L1 and LX
10	Shrinking the lexicon
11	Exemplars vs. generative rules
12	Frequency effects
13	Priming