36.3360, Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3360. Mon Nov 03 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.3360, Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Mara Baccaro, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Mara Baccaro <mara at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 03-Nov-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)


Title: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental
Lexicon
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0701

Author(s): Yufang Wang

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-486-5
Price: 32,00 euros

Abstract:

Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing
individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This
thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in
native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and
lexico-syntactic features involved in word production.
The investigation is structured around three key studies. First, a
picture-word interference (PWI) experiment examines the influence of
animacy—a semantic feature—on language production. Second, another PWI
study investigates how the number of overlapping semantic features
affects word retrieval. Third, the thesis explores the role of
classifier distribution similarity in word production.
These questions are addressed through a combination of corpus
analysis, behavioral experiments, and electroencephalography (EEG)
measurements, providing a multifaceted view of language production.
The thesis also uses state-of-the-art statistical methodologies to
analyze large-scale linguistic, behavioural, and electrophysiological
data, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive
processes involved in Mandarin Chinese word production.

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Mandarin Chinese (cmn)

Language Family(ies): Chinese




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3360
----------------------------------------------------------