Lexicon 1 Review Sheet

Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1. What kind of information would your lexicon include?

 

2. Indicate the difference between an open class word and a closed class word. Also the difference between an inflectional morpheme and a derivational morpheme.

 

3. Describe the decompositional view of morphemes as word primitives and give one advantage of such a view.

 

4. Describe the sentence verification task used by Collins and Quillian to test the hierarchical model of storing information.

 

 

5. What is a spreading activation model?

 

 

6. List the 3 methodologies used when research on lexical access is done.

 

7. Describe the cohort model of lexical access.

 

Answer the following multiple-choice questions.

1. Circle the elements that might possibly influence lexical access:
(a) word frequency
(b) age of the subject
(c) morphological complexity
(d) semantic priming

2. Forster’s autonomous search model is a __________________ model where Morton’s search model is a _________________ model.
(a) serial… … …parallel
(b) parallel… … ….serial
(c) innate… … …learned
(d) learned… … …innate

3. The connectionist model of lexical access
(a) has been discredited as too simplistic
(b) uses the analogy of the brain and the neurons to develop models of cognition
(c) relies on knowledge-based approaches such as reference theory
(d) emphasizes the conventional nature of word meaning

4. The logogen model of lexical access:
(a) is a serial search model
(b) proposes that high frequency words are stored separately from low frequency words in the lexicon
(c) proposes that it takes less activation to access a high frequency word than a low frequency word
(d) suggests that low frequency words have low thresholds for activation

5. The study of semantics involves:
(a) the study of how language is used in a social context
(b) the study of the relationship between words and their meanings as well as how people organize, process, and access words.
(c) the study of grammatical arrangement of words within a sentence.
(d) the study of different forms of the same word are used to convey different shades of meaning.

6. The smallest form in which a word is stored in our mental lexicon is a:
(a) protoword
(b) word primitive
(c) morpheme
(d) concept

7. In a lexical decision task, the subject is asked to:
(a) add appropriate morphological endings to nonsense words
(b) decide whether words are open or closed class
(c) decide which word best completes a sentence
(d) distinguish between real and nonsense words presented in a list