An alternative view of the mental lexicon. Elman, J. L Trends Cogn Sci, 8(7):301-6, 2004.
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An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on mental states. The phonological, syntactic and semantic properties of a word are revealed by the effects it has on those states.
@Article{Elman2004,
  author   = {Jeffrey L Elman},
  journal  = {Trends Cogn Sci},
  title    = {An alternative view of the mental lexicon.},
  year     = {2004},
  number   = {7},
  pages    = {301-6},
  volume   = {8},
  abstract = {An essential aspect of knowing language is knowing the words of that
	language. This knowledge is usually thought to reside in the mental
	lexicon, a kind of dictionary that contains information regarding
	a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so
	on. In this article, a very different view is presented. In this
	view, words are understood as stimuli that operate directly on mental
	states. The phonological, syntactic and semantic properties of a
	word are revealed by the effects it has on those states.},
  doi      = {10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.003},
  keywords = {Humans, Language, Mental Processes, Models, P.H.S., Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Psychological, Research Support, Semantics, U.S. Gov't, Verbal Behavior, 15242689},
}

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