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Compositional semantics and the lemma dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Marco Zorzi  and
Gabriella Vigliocco
Marco Zorzi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, 34123 Trieste, [email protected] www.psychol.cul.ac.uk/marco.zorzi/marco.html
Gabriella Vigliocco
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 [email protected] psych.wisc.edu/faculty/pages/gvigliocco/FV/html
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Abstract

We discuss two key assumptions of Levelt et al.'s model of lexical retrieval: (1) the nondecompositional character of concepts and (2) lemmas as purely syntactic representations. These assumptions fail to capture the broader role of lemmas, which we propose as that of lexical–semantic representations binding (compositional) semantics with phonology (or orthography).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 60 - 61
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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