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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Kita, Sotaro – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This paper presents a discussion of the constraints imposed on lexicalisation during production by language-specific patterns, such as whether words exist in a language to describe a given event and whether language-specific syntactic and phonological information correlates with semantic properties. First, we introduce in broad strokes relevant…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Language Patterns, Semantics
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Faber, Pamela – Language Awareness, 1998
Describes an exercise in lexical analysis, involving verbs of sound in English and Spanish. The aim of the exercise is to enable students to discover underlying patterns of meaning that are representative of lexical-conceptual structure. (Author/VL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Dictionaries