An alternative view of the mental lexicon Export

@article{citeulike:340004, abstract = {An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on mental states. The phonological, syntactic and semantic properties of a word are revealed by the effects it has on those states.}, author = {Elman, Jeffrey L.}, citeulike-article-id = {340004}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364661304001366}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VH9-4CJ49XY-3/2/172033cce0c6bfadc356662d208ffa03}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {cognition, language, lexicon, network-neural, network-recurrent, perception}, month = {July}, number = {7}, pages = {301--306}, posted-at = {2009-05-22 06:01:54}, priority = {0}, title = {An alternative view of the mental lexicon}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003}, volume = {8}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:340004 L3 - citeulike-article-id:340004 N2 - An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on mental states. The phonological, syntactic and semantic properties of a word are revealed by the effects it has on those states. IS - 7 JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences EP - 306 TI - An alternative view of the mental lexicon VL - 8 SP - 301 KW - cognition KW - language KW - lexicon KW - network-neural KW - network-recurrent KW - perception AU - Elman, Jeffrey PY - 2004/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003 ER -