Abstract
One of the most impressive capabilities of the human language user is the ability to access the right word at the right moment. In fluent speech words are produced at a rate of about two or three per second. That means that, on the average, every 400 milliseconds an item (a word, a root) is selected from the speaker’s sizable lexicon (which can easily contain 30,000 words, dependent on the speaker’s language and education). What is a lexical item? What kind of internal structure does it have? Let us recall Saussure’s analysis of the linguistic sign.
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Levelt, W.J.M., Schriefers, H. (1987). Stages of Lexical Access. In: Kempen, G. (eds) Natural Language Generation. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_25
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