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The Mental Lexicon (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of
Frankfurt (Main), 11 entries in the bibliography, language:
English, abstract: Das mentale Lexikon wird in dieser Arbeit mit
seinen verschiedenen Aspekten dargestellt. Unterschiedliche
Theorieansatze werden vorgestellt, u. a. von Aitchison. 1.
Introduction ...] Aitchison (2003:6) refers to a study by Seashore
and Eckerson (1940) in which they estimated that an educated adult
knows more than 58,000 common 'basic words', 1,700 rare 'basic
words' and 96,000 derivates and compounds. This is an overall total
of 150,000 words of which 90% are used actively. Aitchison
(2003:6-7) argues that "this figure is controversial, because of
the problems of defining 'word' and the difficulty of finding a
reliable procedure for assessing vocabulary knowledge." Rothweiler
(2001:21) refers to Miller (1993) who estimates the vocabulary of
an average educated adult at 80,000 words. Rothweiler (2001:21)
argues that the mental lexicon is more than a passive memory. She
refers to Levelt (1989:181) that the lexicon is a central station
between conceptualization on the one hand and the grammatical and
phonological coding of language on the other hand. Both the
acquisition of words and the usage of words refer to lexical
processes. The lexicon seems to be well structured because words
can be located in a split second (Aitchison 2003:7). Both
Rothweiler and Aitchison refer to confirmed experiments that native
speakers can recognize a word of their mother tongue in 200 ms or
less from its onset and can reject a non-word sound sequence in
about half a second. Production of a word is slightly slower: the
lexicon is able to generate up to six syllables a second, "making
three or more words ...] fairly standard" (Aitchison 2003:8).
Errors of selection are rare - one in about a thousand words. This
paper is about the mental lexicon. First, I will compare the mental
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