find two peer-reviewed journal articles on lexicons and metaphors. In your synopsis, you will include:
- A summary of each of the journal articles
- The main points discussed in each of the journal articles and how they relate to the week’s course and text readings
- Your thoughts and perspectives regarding the concepts covered in each of the journal articles
- Cite sources using the APA format on a separate page.
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The Lexical Decision Experiment
Most psychologists agree that a human language is organized and assessed in the human mind in the form of lexicons.
Organization of Lexicons
The lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including terms, subjects, styles, and expressions used when communicating. In other words, it is the knowledge that a native speaker has about a language. Unlike a dictionary, which is arranged alphabetically, a lexicon is organized by:
- Semantics: This refers to what a word means. For example, knife and fork are placed far apart in the dictionary but are “close” to each other in the lexicon because they are both items of cutlery.
- Phonology: This refers to how a word sounds, for example, book and look, beak and sleek, and kite and pike.
- Parts of speech: This refers to the way a word functions in a language, for example, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.
- Relationship between words and phrases: This refers to what a word can precede or follow and how a word can be modified, for example, synonyms such as youth and adolescent, antonyms such as man and woman, and polysemy words (same word having two or more distinct meanings) such as check (bank) and check (chess).
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Organization of Lexicons
The lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including terms, subjects, styles, and expressions
used when communicating. In other words, it is the knowledge that a native speaker has about a
language. Unlike a dictionary, which is arranged alphabetically, a lexicon is organized by:
• Semantics: This refers to what a word means. For example, knife and fork are placed far
apart in the dictionary but are “close” to each other in the lexicon because they are both
items of cutlery.
• Phonology: This refers to how a word sounds, for example, book and look, beak and
sleek, and kite and pike.
• Parts of speech: This refers to the way a word functions in a language, for example,
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.
• Relationship between words and phrases: This refers to what a word can precede or
follow and how a word can be modified, for example, synonyms such as youth and
adolescent, antonyms such as man and woman, and polysemy words (same word having
two or more distinct meanings) such as check (bank) and check (chess).
