Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research
Published on 12. December 2012
Book
Hardback
465 pages
978-90-272-0266-6 (ISBN)
Description
The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and analytic advancements that have enabled researchers to address new phenomena and to ask new questions. These new methodologies have also raised fundamental questions concerning the nature of words in the mind, the nature of language processing, and the ways in which data can be understood.
This book provides a timely resource written by international leaders in methodological innovation. It offers fundamental insights into how innovative methodological approaches advance lexical research. It also offers the technical knowledge that is essential to that advancement, but which is rarely found in journal reports. This is a methodologically oriented volume designed to be informative, thought provoking, innovative, and perhaps also revolutionary. The contributions in this volume that originally appeared in The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) and 6:1 (2011) are supplemented with several new chapters, as well as with a new and timely introductory chapter titled "Embracing Complexity".
This book provides a timely resource written by international leaders in methodological innovation. It offers fundamental insights into how innovative methodological approaches advance lexical research. It also offers the technical knowledge that is essential to that advancement, but which is rarely found in journal reports. This is a methodologically oriented volume designed to be informative, thought provoking, innovative, and perhaps also revolutionary. The contributions in this volume that originally appeared in The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) and 6:1 (2011) are supplemented with several new chapters, as well as with a new and timely introductory chapter titled "Embracing Complexity".
Reviews / Votes
[...] I highly recommend this volume to researchers within the field of lexical research for its collation of such stimulating and contemporary work. -- Jonathan Clenton, Osaka University, on Linguist List 24.2626 (June 2013)More details
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Language
English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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+ index
Weight
975 gr
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978-90-272-0266-6 (9789027202666)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. The challenge of embracing complexity (by Libben, Gary); 4. Articles; 5. Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity (by Monaghan, Padraic); 6. Assessing language impairment in aphasia: Going beyond pencils and paper in the computer age (by Westbury, Chris); 7. Behavioral profiles: A fine-grained and quantitative approach in corpus-based lexical semantics (by Gries, Stefan Th.); 8. Using a maze task to track lexical and sentence processing (by Forster, Kenneth I.); 9. Stimulus norming: It is too soon to close down brick-and-mortar labs (by Wurm, Lee H.); 10. Connectionism and the role of morphology in visual word recognition (by Rueckl, Jay); 11. Towards a localist-connectionist model of word translation (by Dijkstra, Ton); 12. Chinese as a natural experiment (by Myers, James); 13. Demythologizing the word frequency effect: A discriminative learning perspective (by Baayen, R. H.); 14. Articles; 15. Lexical knowledge without a lexicon? (by Elman, Jeffrey L.); 16. Detecting inherent bias in lexical decision experiments with the LD1NN algorithm (by Keuleers, Emmanuel); 17. A technical introduction to using speakers' eye movements to study language (by Griffin, Zenzi M.); 18. Eye movements and morphological processing in reading (by Bertram, Raymond); 19. Spelling strategies in alphabetic scripts: Insights gained and challenges ahead (by Sandra, Dominiek); 20. The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research: An essay on the advantages they offer and a survey of their purveyors (by Stemmer, Brigitte); 21. Formulaic sequences: Do they exist and do they matter? (by Shaoul, Cyrus); 22. Fractal and recurrence analysis of psycholinguistic data (by Wallot, Sebastian); 23. Brain imaging and conceptions of the lexicon (by Meltzer, Jed A.); 24. Index