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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Stages of Lexical Access

verfasst von : Willem J. M. Levelt, Herbert Schriefers

Erschienen in: Natural Language Generation

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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One of the most impressive capabilities of the human language user is the ability to access the right word at the right moment. In fluent speech words are produced at a rate of about two or three per second. That means that, on the average, every 400 milliseconds an item (a word, a root) is selected from the speaker’s sizable lexicon (which can easily contain 30,000 words, dependent on the speaker’s language and education). What is a lexical item? What kind of internal structure does it have? Let us recall Saussure’s analysis of the linguistic sign.

Metadaten
Titel
Stages of Lexical Access
verfasst von
Willem J. M. Levelt
Herbert Schriefers
Copyright-Jahr
1987
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_25

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