Mental Lexicon and Word Learning

Authors

  • Tahar Loucif Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70443/jaaal.v15i2.50

Keywords:

Language learning, word learning, mental lexicon, lexical field, psycholinguistics

Abstract

While the study of vocabulary knowledge has been for a long time the domain of psychologists and psycholinguists, the eighties have seen a growing interest for word knowledge and word learning. In this paper, I review shortly some results from psycholinguistic research on the mental lexicon that are relevant for applied linguistics. I further discuss a series of publications concerning factors that influence success in word learning. Finally, I report on a recent study done at the University of Amsterdam on the relative role of sound, image and context in word learning.

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31-12-2019

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Mental Lexicon and Word Learning. (2019). Journal of Algerian Academy of the Arabic Language , 15(2), 71-92. https://doi.org/10.70443/jaaal.v15i2.50