PSY112 - The Mental Lexicon

Linguistic encoding processes are by and large are mediated by the entries in the (mental) lexicon, the human variant of a word store. This unit discusses the central components of the lexicon, the ways how the lexicon is accessed and how the information associated with a lexical entry can be strucured.

[@tiREV55]

This video helped me with my final Linguistics exam in 2018. I still think about it until today.

[@Zentropy000]

The tip of the tongue explanation clarified the entangled web of linguistics that was about to shut down my mental lexicon. Thank you for opening a new channel of inspiration into the right direction. Perhaps I will be doing more work in psycholinguistics than I previously thought. Thank you for a great lesson once again.

[@julietteanya2003]

Please can you do a video on prototype and prototype theories?

[@TheAhnaqsh]

Thank you for the informative video. It is very intersting.
Some ideas have occured to me after watching this video:
1) I suppose retreival must work both ways. We have both production and comprehension of language. Thus, it must be possible to look up one side from the other.
2) The way the lexicon is stored in the brain must make this easy, indeed, possibly it must make it equally easy both ways.

[@abdallahyaghi8463]

Great lecture. thank you

[@prj1444]

Great lecture .... I would see your other lectures too....thanks...

[@greenblanko815]

very good, thanks

[@EjazHasan]

thats really very cool, i have learnt much from this video, i am going to develop a lexicon of Punjabi

[@saifallahghidhaoui1853]

Thank you Sir

[@TheAhnaqsh]

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3) It would be interesting to check which computational data structures make this possible. There is a vast body of research on data structures. They are, essentially, nothing more than clever ways to organize data to make certain operations faster (often at the cost of slowing down certain otehr operations).
4) Such study might reveal something about the organbization of the lexicon. Parallels might be found and investigated.

[@wasanshakir1203]

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