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lemma: a standalone construct

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lemma1 CONSTRUCTLemma (speech)KEMPEN · LEXICAL NODE

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Psycholinguistics

An abstract lexical representation used in speech production

In psycholinguistics, a lemma is an abstract mental representation of a word that carries its meaning and its grammatical properties but not yet its sound, retrieved at an intermediate step when a speaker turns an idea into speech. Kempen and Huijbers's 1983 study of word retrieval in sentence production introduced the lemma as this distinct step, and Levelt's 1989 Speaking and Levelt, Roelofs, and Meyer's 1999 model made the split between the lemma and the later sound form of the word central to theories of speaking. This referent is a proposed processing unit inside the mind of a speaker, tested by reaction times and speech errors, not a headword in a dictionary or a proposition in a proof.[1][2][3]

Unit
One abstract lexical node holding a word's meaning and grammatical class, prior to its sound form
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from picture-naming reaction times, tip-of-the-tongue states, and speech errors that separate a word's meaning from its sound

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References

  1. Kempen, G., & Huijbers, P. (1983). The lexicalization process in sentence production and naming: Indirect election of words. Cognition, 14(2), 185–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(83)90029-X
  2. Levelt, W. J. M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6393.001.0001
  3. Levelt, W. J. M., Roelofs, A., & Meyer, A. S. (1999). A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(1), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X99001776

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