Central to the investigation of the biological and cognitive capacities underlying human language is to determine how hypothetically distinct linguistic and non-linguistic computational systems interact to yield the representation of the meaning of a sentence. The focus of our chapter is on the… read more
The nature of the mental lexicon remains one of the central controversies in cognitive science, bearing on fundamental questions concerning the representation and processing of linguistic knowledge. In this article, we examine Gary Libben’s contributions to the study of lexical representation… read more