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Compositional semantics and the lemma dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Marco Zorzi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, 34123 Trieste, Italyzorzi@univ.trieste.it www.psychol.cul.ac.uk/marco.zorzi/marco.html
Gabriella Vigliocco
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 gviglioc@facstaff.wisc.edu psych.wisc.edu/faculty/pages/gvigliocco/FV/html

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
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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