Polylogues on the Mental Lexicon : An Exploration of Fundamental Issues and Directions.

Intro -- Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The mental lexicon as polylogue -- Roots of the polylogue -- The polylogue as conversation and text -- Structural topic modeling applied to the mental lexicon as polylogue -- The value of structural topic modeling in capturing polylogues and creating opportunities -- From the observers to the observed: The mental lexicon as polylogue -- The thematic polylogue -- References -- Chapter 2. Meta-megastudies -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Myers thesis -- Ray Jackendoff commentary on Myers thesis -- Dorit Ravid commentary on Myers thesis -- Russel Richie commentary on Myers thesis -- Benjamin Tucker commentary on Myers thesis -- Chris Westbury commentary on Myers -- The article -- The need for meta-megastudies -- The challenges of meta-megastudies -- Confounded variables -- Typological language sampling -- Infrastructure for meta-megastudies -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain: Explaining semantics without semantics -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Westbury thesis -- Ray Jackendoff commentary on Westbury thesis -- James Myers commentary on Westbury thesis -- Dorit Ravid commentary on Westbury thesis -- Russel Richie commentary on Westbury thesis -- Benjamin Tucker commentary on Westbury thesis -- The article -- What makes an explanation non-dormitive? -- Mapping lexical semantics into other domains -- Semantics as a mapping from multiple domains -- Explaining semantics without semantics -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 4. Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Tucker and Ernestus thesis -- Ray Jackendoff commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis.

James Myers commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis -- Dorit Ravid commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis -- Russel Richie commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis -- Chris Westbury commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis -- The article -- Why casual speech has attracted so little attention within psycholinguistics -- Relevance of differences between casual and careful speech for psycholinguistics -- Challenges and opportunities for research on the production of casual speech -- Challenges and opportunities for research on the comprehension of casual speech -- Where do we think psycholinguistic research should go? -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 5. Hebrew adjective lexicons in developmental perspective: Subjective register and morphology -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Ravid et al. thesis -- Ray Jackendoff commentary on Ravid et al. thesis -- James Myers commentary on Ravid et al. thesis -- Russell Richie commentary on Ravid et al. thesis -- Benjamin Tucker commentary on Ravid et al. thesis -- Chris Westbury commentary on Ravid et al. thesis -- The article -- Adjectives -- Morphology as a developmental criterion -- Familiarity as index -- Register -- Method -- Results -- The Five adjective lexicons: Semantic and morphological analyses -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 6. Functionalism in the lexicon: Where is it, and how did it get there? -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Richie thesis -- Ray Jackendoff commentary on Richie thesis -- James Myers commentary on Richie thesis -- Dorit Ravid commentary on Richie thesis -- Benjamin Tucker commentary on Richie thesis -- Chris Westbury commentary on Richie thesis -- The article -- Goals of the current review -- Functionalism in the phonological lexicon -- Functionalism in lexical-semantics -- Issues with functionalist accounts of the lexicon.

Future directions - additional ways to assess functionalism in the lexicon -- The emergence of functionalism in the lexicon: Current and future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Morphological schemas: Theoretical and psycholinguistic issues -- Thesis -- Commentaries on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- James Myers commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- Dorit Ravid commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- Russell Richie commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- Benjamin Tucker commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- Chris Westbury commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis -- The Article -- 1. Overall goals -- 2. Representations in relational morphology -- 3. Acquisition of productive schemas relies on the relational function -- 4. Theory of processing: Basic assumptions -- 5. Schemas in processing -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices.

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