The Mental Lexicon
The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Models of the representation of words in the mind
- Computational models of lexical access and production
- Experimental investigations of lexical processing
- Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment.
- Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain
- Lexical development across the lifespan
- Lexical processing in second language acquisition
- The bilingual mental lexicon
- Lexical and morphological structure across languages
- Formal models of lexical structure
- Corpus research on the lexicon
- New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research
The Mental Lexicon publishes its articles Online First.
“In an era when the highly specialized journal may fail to draw a large enough audience and the overly generalized journal may fail to find a coherent voice, the Journal of the Mental Lexicon seems to have found that ideal niche: a clear scholarly conception, an openness to multidisciplinary approaches and a broad appeal to the researcher, the clinician, the theoretician and the historian. John Benjamins Publishing is to be congratulated both on the foresight to support this worthwhile project and the acumen to have selected two outstanding scholars to edit what promises to be a bellwether among competing journals.”
Prof. Dr. Harry A. Whitaker, Department of Psychology, Northern Michigan University
Sample issue: ML 12:1
Board
Editors
Harald Baayen | Eberhard Karls University TübingenMelanie J. Bell | Anglia Ruskin UniversityJuhani Järvikivi | University of AlbertaVito Pirrelli | Institute for Computational Linguistics - CNR, PisaAdvisory Board
Mark Aronoff | SUNY Stony BrookBruce L. Derwing | University of AlbertaWolfgang U. Dressler | University of ViennaKenneth I. Forster | University of Arizona
Angela D. Friederici | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Loraine K. Obler | City University of New YorkFounding Editors
Gonia Jarema | Université de Montréal
Gary Libben | Brock UniversityEditorial Board
Iris Berent | Northeastern University
Sami Boudelaa | United Arab Emirates UniversityLori Buchanan | University of WindsorAudrey Bürki | University of PotsdamClara Cohen | University of Glasgow
Simon De Deyne | University of MelbourneTon Dijkstra | Radboud University NijmegenMirjam Ernestus | Radboud University NijmegenLaurie Beth Feldman | University of AlbanyRobert Fiorentino | University of KansasMira Goral | Lehman College, CUNYPeter Hendrix | Tilburg University
Shu-kai Hsieh | National Taiwan University
Eva Kehayia | McGill UniversityEmmanuel Keuleers | Tilburg UniversityVictor Kuperman | McMaster UniversityMinna Lehtonen | University of Turku & University of OsloMarco Marelli | University Milano BicoccaPetar Milin | University of BirminghamFermín Moscoso del Prado Martín | Radboud University Nijmegen
James Myers | National Chung Cheng UniversityIngo Plag | University of DüsseldorfDominiek Sandra | University of AntwerpJohn W. Schwieter | Wilfrid Laurier University & McMaster UniversityEva Smolka | University of KonstanzDebra Titone | McGill UniversityJulie A. Van Dyke | Haskins LaboratoriesChris Westbury | University of AlbertaLee H. Wurm | Gonzaga University
Pienie Zwitserlood | University of MünsterSubscription Info
Current issue: 17:1, available as of April 2022
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
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| Volume 18 (2023): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp. | EUR 305.00 | EUR 361.00 | |
| Volume 17 (2022): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp. | EUR 305.00 | EUR 354.00 |
Individuals may apply for a special subscription rate of EUR 70.00 (online‑only: EUR 65.00)
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Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒16; 2006‒2021) |
47 issues; 7,080 pp. |
EUR 4,468.00 | EUR 4,847.00 |
| Volumes 15‒16 (2020‒2021) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR 305.00 each | EUR 354.00 each |
| Volume 14 (2019) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 299.00 | EUR 347.00 |
| Volume 13 (2018) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 290.00 | EUR 337.00 |
| Volume 12 (2017) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 282.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| Volume 11 (2016) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 282.00 | EUR 317.00 |
| Volume 10 (2015) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 282.00 | EUR 308.00 |
| Volume 9 (2014) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 282.00 | EUR 299.00 |
| Volume 8 (2013) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 282.00 | EUR 290.00 |
| Volumes 2‒7 (2007‒2012) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR 274.00 each | EUR 282.00 each |
| Volume 1 (2006) | 2 issues; 330 pp. | EUR 215.00 | EUR 222.00 |
Issues
Volume 17 (2022)
Volume 16 (2021)
Volume 15 (2020)
Volume 14 (2019)
Volume 13 (2018)
Volume 12 (2017)
Volume 11 (2016)
Volume 10 (2015)
Volume 9 (2014)
Volume 8 (2013)
Volume 7 (2012)
Volume 6 (2011)
Volume 5 (2010)
Volume 4 (2009)
Volume 3 (2008)
Volume 2 (2007)
Volume 1 (2006)
Latest articles
29 November 2022
Structural markedness and depiction
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The case of lower sequential predictability in cantonese ideophones
Arthur L. Thompson
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May Pik Yu Chan
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Ping Hei Yeung
&
Youngah Do
25 October 2022
Is meaning construction attempted during the processing of pseudo-compounds?
Karen Pérez Cruz
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Chelsa Patel
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Jazlynn Steinbach
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Mohamed Barre
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Holly Kibbins
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Dixie Wong
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Alexander Taikh
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Christina L. Gagné
&
Thomas L. Spalding
6 October 2022
Word association norms in Mexican older adults
Natalia Arias-Trejo
,
Gemma Bel-Enguix
,
Julia B. Barrón-Martínez
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Aline Minto-García
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Oscar Arias-Carrión
&
Martha M. González-González
8 April 2022
Processing Spanish gender in a usage‑based model with special reference to dual‑gendered nouns
David Ellingson Eddington
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ML 17:1 (2022) pp. 34–75
4 April 2022
A note on the modeling of the effects of experimental time in psycholinguistic experiments
R. Harald Baayen
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Matteo Fasiolo
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Simon Wood
&
Yu-Ying Chuang
25 March 2022
A N400 event-related potential elicitation paradigm for Canadian French speakers
Nancy Azevedo
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Arielle Crestol
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Kathleen Berkun
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Alexandra Papathanasopoulos
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Leen Yamani
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Alexander Rokos
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Eva Kehayia
&
Stefanie Blain-Moraes
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ML 17:1 (2022) pp. 104–131
18 March 2022
Effects of phonological and talker familiarity on second language lexical development
Jiang Liu
&
Seth Wiener
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ML 17:1 (2022) pp. 132–153
Morphological processing is gradient not discrete in L1 and L2 English masked priming
Kaidi Lõo
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Abigail Toth
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Figen Karaca
&
Juhani Järvikivi
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ML 17:1 (2022) p. 76
Is it you you’re looking for?
Personal relevance as a principal component of semantics
Chris Westbury
&
Lee H. Wurm
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ML 17:1 (2022) pp. 1–33
8 March 2022
Processing lexicality in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
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P3 ERP amplitude as an index of lexical categorization
Nancy Azevedo
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Ruth Ann Atchley
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N. P. Vasavan Nair
&
Eva Kehayia
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 204–239
Investigating bilinguals’ cognitive processing of affective words in minimal linguistic contexts
Vahid Rahmani Doqaruni
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 422–447
Phonological similarity effects in cross-script word processing
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Evidence from Sino-Korean word processing by Cantonese learners
Sang-Im Lee-Kim
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Xinran Ren
&
Peggy Mok
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 325–361
Verbal reaction times based on tracking lip movement
Qiang Liu
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Bryan B. Holbrook
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Alan H. Kawamoto
&
Peter A. Krause
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 271–324
Learning beyond words
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Morphology and the encoding of hierarchical categories
Niveen Omar
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Karen Banai
&
Bracha Nir
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 397–421
Morphophonological activation in Chinese word recognition
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Evidence from heteronymic characters
Yiu-Kei Tsang
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 240–270
Word order effect in collocation processing
Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė
&
Kathy Conklin
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ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 362–396
In memoriam
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Geoff Hollis-Haynes (1983–2021)
ML 16:2-3 (2021) pp. 199–203
8 October 2021
Phonetic reduction and paradigm uniformity effects in spontaneous speech
Marie Engemann
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Ingo Plag
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 165–198
Romance N Prep N constructions in visual word recognition
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An eye-tracking study of French, Spanish and Portuguese
Inga Hennecke
&
Harald Baayen
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ML 16:1 (2021) p. 98
Testing the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail via auditory lexical decision
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A case study of noun/verb homophones
Arne Lohmann
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Benjamin V. Tucker
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 133–164
Contributions of declarative memory and prior knowledge to incidental L2 vocabulary learning
Josiah Murphy
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Ryan T. Miller
&
Phillip Hamrick
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 49–68
Relative entropy effects on the processing of spoken Romanian verbs
Filip Nenadić
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Petar Milin
&
Benjamin V. Tucker
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 23–48
Priming Maltese plurals
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Representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon
Jessica Nieder
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Ruben van de Vijver
&
Holger Mitterer
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 69–97
The impact of embodied simulation in vocabulary learning
Rémy Versace
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Nicolas Bailloud
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Annie Magnan
&
Jean Ecalle
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ML 16:1 (2021) pp. 2–22
Editorial
ML 16:1 (2021) p. 1
Submission
The Mental Lexicon offers online submission. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.
If you are not able to submit online, please contact the editors: MentalLexicon
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFD: Psycholinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General